Three Armies In Britain

Author : William Philpott
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030759372X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Armies on the Somme written by William Philpott and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. It was the most brutal fight in a war that scarred generations. Infantrymen lined up opposite massed artillery and machine guns. Chlorine gas filled the air. The dead and dying littered the shattered earth of no man’s land. Survivors were rattled with shell-shock. We remember the shedding of so much young blood and condemn the generals who sent their men to their deaths. Ever since, the Somme has been seen as a waste: even as the war continued, respected leaders—Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George among them—judged the battle a pointless one. While previous histories have documented the missteps of British command, no account has fully recognized the fact that allied generals were witnessing the spontaneous evolution of warfare even as they sent their troops “over the top.” With his keen insight and vast knowledge of military strategy, Philpott shows that twentieth-century war as we know it simply didn’t exist before the Battle of the Somme: new technologies like the armored tank made their battlefield debut, while developments in communications lagged behind commanders’ needs. Attrition emerged as the only means of defeating industrialized belligerents that were mobilizing all their resources for war. At the Somme, the allied armies acquired the necessary lessons of modern warfare, without which they could never have prevailed. An exciting, indispensable work of military history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme, and about the very nature of war.

Author : Arthur Stanley Riggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Three Armies on and Behind the Western Front written by Arthur Stanley Riggs and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.7K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the British Army: To the close of the seven years' war written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Biggs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047410033
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Armies in Britain written by Douglas Biggs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reexamines the political and military aspects of the Revolution of 1399 that removed Richard II and placed Henry of Lancaster on the English throne. It argues that Henry of Lancaster was not the "all conquering" hero of 1399 but was rather the leader of a coalition of disaffected noblemen who had old scores to settle with Richard II. It also proposes that Richard II was not an incompetent king whose personality disorder(s) and/or tyrannical behavior brought about his fall. Rather, it argues that the king was in no worse a political position in 1399 than in 1387 or even 1381. As on the previous two great crises of the reign, the king forwent a military option of dealing with his opponents and decided to let the issues of 1399 play themselves out on the field of politics. Both in 1381 and 1387 this tactic had proven effective and there was nothing to suggest in 1399 that it would not be so again.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterloo written by Bernard Cornwell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo. On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour by hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.

Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155604
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Soldiers written by Mitchell A. Yockelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.

Author : Ian Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316824543
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Army and the First World War written by Ian Beckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.

Author : Joseph Shuter Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over There and Back in Three Uniforms written by Joseph Shuter Smith and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Granville Roland Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Front with Three Armies written by Granville Roland Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915834
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: