Aldershot in the Great War - 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 Aldershot in the Great War write by Murray Rowlands. This book was released on 2015-02-28. Aldershot in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book written about Britain's premier army base in the First World War.The book contains and explores the following: The first published record of the troops in Aldershot on 4 August 1914. The first published list of officers and men from Aldershot killed in the war. Lists the dead from WWI in Aldershot Cemetery. Outlines the activities of crucial figures in the War such as Smith-Dorrien, Haig and French in Aldershot in the period before the War. Traces the growth development of aircraft manufacture at Farnborough under the guidance of Mervyn O'Gorman from a balloon factory to major aircraft manufacture. Highlights the changes in the social fabric of Aldershot during the war. Records the experience of Aldershot as a premier training base through the eyes of Anthony Eden, Wilfred Owen and men of all ranks.
The Great War
The Great War - 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 Great War write by Herbert Wrigley Wilson. This book was released on 1916. The Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great War
The Great War - 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 Great War write by Peter Hart. This book was released on 2013. The Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. -Total war- emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive engagements, Hart explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides. He surveys the belligerent nations, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and strategic imperatives. Russia, for example, was obsessed with securing an exit from the Black Sea, while France--having lost to Prussia in 1871, before Germany united--constructed a network of defensive alliances, even as it held a grudge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. Hart offers deft portraits of the commanders, the prewar plans, and the unexpected obstacles and setbacks that upended the initial operations.
The Irish regiments in the Great War
The Irish regiments in the Great War - 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 Irish regiments in the Great War write by Timothy Bowman. This book was released on 2013-07-19. The Irish regiments in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto focused on the 312 notorious ‘shot at dawn’ cases, many thousands of British soldiers were tried by court martial during the Great War. This book provides the first comprehensive study of discipline and morale in the British Army during the Great War by using a case study of the Irish regular and Special Reserve batallions. In doing so, Timothy Bowman demonstrates that breaches of discipline did occur in the Irish regiments but in most cases these were of a minor nature. Controversially, he suggests that where executions did take place, they were militarily necessary and served the purpose of restoring discipline in failing units. Bowman also shows that there was very little support for the emerging Sinn Fein movement within the Irish regiments. This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader concerned with how units maintain discipline and morale under the most trying conditions.
The Last Great War of Antiquity
The Last Great War of Antiquity - 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 Last Great War of Antiquity write by James Howard-Johnston. This book was released on 2021. The Last Great War of Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.
