My Ancestor was in the British 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 My Ancestor was in the British Army write by Michael J. Watts. This book was released on 2009-01-01. My Ancestor was in the British Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Waterloo Roll Call
The Waterloo Roll Call - 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 Waterloo Roll Call write by Charles Dalton. This book was released on 1890. The Waterloo Roll Call available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
First World War Army Service Records
First World War Army Service Records - 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 First World War Army Service Records write by William Spencer. This book was released on 2008-07-14. First World War Army Service Records available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The National Archives' celebrated First World War holdings include personal files of officers and other ranks, campaign medals, gallantry and meritorious service awards, courts martial and casualty lists. Its remarkable collection has records of Dominion forces and the Indian Army, the WAAC, the Royal Flying Corps and RAF, as well as auxiliary and nursing services. Over 10,000 individual unit war diaries cover all operational theatres of the British Army, while original trench maps illustrates areas from the Western Front to Salonica, Gallipoli to Mesopotamia, Palestine to Italy.
Mercenaries for the Crimea
Mercenaries for the Crimea - 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 Mercenaries for the Crimea write by C.C. Bayley. This book was released on 1977-01-01. Mercenaries for the Crimea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Boer War to World War
From Boer War to 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 From Boer War to World War write by Spencer Jones. This book was released on 2013-04-01. From Boer War to World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance. A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the military’s confidence. Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer War to World War, showing how it crucially shaped the British Army’s tactical development in the years that followed. Before the British Army faced the Boer republics, an aura of complacency had settled over the military. The Victorian era had been marked by years of easy defeats of crudely armed foes. The Boer War, however, brought the British face to face with what would become modern warfare. The sweeping, open terrain and advent of smokeless powder meant soldiers were picked off before they knew where shots had been fired from. The infantry’s standard close-order formations spelled disaster against the well-armed, entrenched Boers. Although the British Army ultimately adapted its strategy and overcame the Boers in 1902, the duration and cost of the war led to public outcry and introspection within the military. Jones draws on previously underutilized sources as he explores the key tactical lessons derived from the war, such as maximizing firepower and using natural cover, and he shows how these new ideas were incorporated in training and used to effect a thorough overhaul of the British Army. The first book to address specific connections between the Boer War and the opening months of World War I, Jones’s fresh interpretation adds to the historiography of both wars by emphasizing the continuity between them.
