A Tommy at Ypres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tommy at Ypres write by Doreen Priddey. This book was released on 2011-06-15. A Tommy at Ypres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The secret trench diary of a British private. Published in time for Remembrance Day (11 November). Increased interest in the First World War in the run-up to the centenary.
The Battle Book of Ypres
The Battle Book of Ypres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle Book of Ypres write by . This book was released on 1927. The Battle Book of Ypres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Johnny Get Your Gun
Johnny Get Your Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johnny Get Your Gun write by John F. Tucker. This book was released on 2015-02-28. Johnny Get Your Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the age of seventeen-and-a-half, full of idealism and patriotism, John Tucker enlisted as an Infantryman in the London Kensington Regiment and reached France, after training, in August 1915. Against all odds he survived three years of bitter trench warfare, was seriously wounded, and returned to Blighty a few months before Armistice Day. During those years he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. Yet though his patriotism remained unflinching, his idealism gave way to the grim realities of day to day survival in the trenches and, as he began to understand what constitutes courage, he grew from boyhood to manhood.The author contrasts the beauties of the French countryside with the ugliness of widespread death and destruction, and paints a picture of French country life hardly less squalid than the soldiers' own lot. But above all, he makes the reader realise what it was like to fight in the war to end all wars.These are the memoirs of one Infantryman, but through his eyes a vivid canvas of the whole war gradually unfolds.
Boys' Book Of Battles: The Story Of Eleven Famous Land Combats
Boys' Book Of Battles: The Story Of Eleven Famous Land Combats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boys' Book Of Battles: The Story Of Eleven Famous Land Combats write by Chelsea Curtis Fraser. This book was released on 2022-10-27. Boys' Book Of Battles: The Story Of Eleven Famous Land Combats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Teenage Tommy
Teenage Tommy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teenage Tommy write by Richard van Emden. This book was released on 2014-02-19. Teenage Tommy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under him during the famous cavalry charge of the 4th Dragoon Guards and the 9th Lancers at Audregnies. Ben served on the Western front during every major engagement of the war except Loos, was wounded twice, and in 1919 went with the Army of Occupation to Cologne. The son of a stable groom, Ben was brought up in the beautiful Sussex countryside near Lewes and from his earliest years was, as he often said himself, "crazy to be a soldier". He worked briefly as a stable boy before joining up in 1913; his training was barely completed when war broke out. The Regiment, knowing Ben to be under age, tried to stop him embarking for France, but he flatly refused to be left behind. During the next four years, he served under officers immortalized in Great War history, including Major Tom Bridges, Captain Hornby, and Lieutenant-Colonel Adrien Carton de Wiart VC.Teenage Tommy is a detailed account of a trooper's life at the front, vividly recalling, for example, the privations suffered during the retreat from Mons. and later, the desperate fighting to hold back the German onslaught at 2nd Ypres. But this is more than just a memoir about trench warfare. Ben's lively sense of humor and healthy disrespect for petty restrictions make this an entertaining as well as a moving story of life at the front.
