Kitchener's Last Volunteer - 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 Kitchener's Last Volunteer write by Dennis Goodwin. This book was released on 2011-01-31. Kitchener's Last Volunteer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War, and by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land, sea and in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet and went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives, and he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years, Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary, and he has since become a hero to many, meeting royalty and having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - one who has outlived six monarchs and twenty-one prime ministers, and who represents a last link to a vital point in our nation's history.
Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World
Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World - 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 Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World write by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 2018-11-03. Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Publishers, Readers and the Great War
Publishers, Readers and 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 Publishers, Readers and the Great War write by Vincent Trott. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Publishers, Readers and the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.
Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916
Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 - 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 Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 write by George H. Cassar. This book was released on 2005-10-31. Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
Kitcheners Army
Kitcheners Army - 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 Kitcheners Army write by Peter Simkins. This book was released on 2007-08-30. Kitcheners Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.
