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.
Kitchener's Army
Kitchener's 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 Kitchener's Army write by Peter Simkins. This book was released on 2007-08-30. Kitchener's 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.
Kitchener [Illustrated Edition]
Kitchener [Illustrated Edition] - 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 [Illustrated Edition] write by Brigadier Colin R. Ballard. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Kitchener [Illustrated Edition] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes 17 maps and the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener served in the British Army from his teenage years in the Royal Engineers to his elevation to the highest military rank forty-four years later in 1916. In this balanced biography, written by a fellow British Army officer who served in the First World War, his long career in the army and as a colonial administrator is charted in vivid detail. Kitchener came to worldwide attention in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title “Lord Kitchener of Khartoum”; as Chief of Staff (1900–02) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts’ conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief–ultimately winning the war against the insurgent Boers. After a quarrelsome term as Commander-in-Chief (1902–09) in India he returned to Egypt as Consul-General. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister. One of the few to foresee a long war, he organised the largest volunteer army that both Britain and the world had seen, and oversaw a significant expansion of materials production to fight Germany on the Western Front. Despite having warned of the difficulty of provisioning Britain for a long war, he was blamed for the shortage of shells in the spring of 1915 – one of the events leading to the formation of a coalition government – and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy. Kitchener drowned on 5 June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank west of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. He was making his way to Russia in order to attend negotiations but the ship struck a German mine. He was one of the 600 killed on board the ship.
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George - 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 Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George write by Stephen Cliffe. This book was released on 2017-05-17. Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Would it have been possible for the First World War to be avoided? Steve Cliffe, author of Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords, believes so as did David Lloyd George, Britain’s wartime prime minister. In a bloody act of annihilation that killed over half a million young British men, George was one of three powerful personalities who indelibly stamped their authority and influence on the conduct and final outcome of ‘the war to end all wars’. Of the other two, Winston Churchill became better known for his role in the Second World War, and Lord Kitchener was arguably the greatest instigator of Britain’s war effort. With his image stamped on the iconic ‘Your country needs you’ enlistment poster during the war, Kitchener exerted tremendous influence on both politicians and a lost generation of British youth. Those who start wars seldom finish them, and Kitchener, tragically, was no exception to this grim rule. Illustrations: 40 black-and-white photographs
British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)
British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World 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 British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War) write by David French. This book was released on 2014-04-03. British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
