From the Dugouts to the Trenches - 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 From the Dugouts to the Trenches write by Jim Leeke. This book was released on 2017-05. From the Dugouts to the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches. He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and largely dismantled the Minor Leagues, as many prominent players joined the military and went overseas. By the war’s end more than 1,250 ballplayers, team owners, and sportswriters would serve, demonstrating that while the war was “over there,” it had a considerable impact on the national pastime. Leeke tells the stories of those who served, as well as organized baseball’s response, including its generosity and patriotism. He weaves into his narrative the story of African American players who were barred from the Major Leagues but who nevertheless swapped their jerseys for fatigues, as well as the stories of those who were killed in action—and by diseases or accidents—and what their deaths meant to teammates, fans, and the sport in general. From the Dugouts to the Trenches illuminates this influential and fascinating period in baseball history, as nineteen months of upheaval and turmoil changed the sport—and the world—forever.
Digging the Trenches
Digging the Trenches - 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 Digging the Trenches write by Andrew Robertshaw. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Digging the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive, illustrated survey of the latest in battlefield archaeology reveals “intimate insight into the realities of life” during WWI (Current Archaeology). Modern methods of archaeological, historical, and forensic research have transformed our understanding of the Great War. In Digging the Trenches, battlefield archaeologists Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to this exciting new field and explore many of the remarkable projects that have been undertaken. Robertshaw and Kenyon show how archaeology can be used to reveal the positions of trenches, dugouts and other battlefield features, as well as what life on the Western Front was really like. They also show how individual soldiers are coming into focus as forensic investigation is so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fates discovered. “An excellent introduction to the subject…Digging the Trenches is essential reading.”—Gary Sheffield, Military Illustrated “What a splendid book this is.”—Neil Faulkner, Current Archaeology
From Trench and Dugout
From Trench and Dugout - 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 From Trench and Dugout write by Raymond Wunderlich. This book was released on 1919. From Trench and Dugout available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Letters from the Trenches
Letters from the Trenches - 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 Letters from the Trenches write by Jacqueline Wadsworth. This book was released on 2014-11-30. Letters from the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.
Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large
Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large - 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 Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large write by . This book was released on 1918. Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
