The Countryside at War 1914-1918 - 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 Countryside at War 1914-1918 write by Caroline Dakers. This book was released on 2013-09-19. The Countryside at War 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for their country. In this fascinating book, illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs, Caroline Dakers explores exactly what their 'country' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for old England - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dr Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war. There are chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, The French countryside was smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the First World War on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates across the decades.
Forever England
Forever England - 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 Forever England write by Caroline Dakers. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Forever England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for England. In this book Caroline Dakers explores exactly what 'England' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for a vision of 'old England' - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war, through chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, the French countryside was being smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the World War I on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates today.
La Voce della verità e della giustizia
La Voce della verità e della giustizia - 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 La Voce della verità e della giustizia write by . This book was released on 18??. La Voce della verità e della giustizia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Trench
The Trench - 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 Trench write by Trevor Yorke. This book was released on 2014. The Trench available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century ... This book offers a simple guide to the war, looking at the events and the people who took part, through what was the setting for so much of the carnage; the trench. The trenches and the trench system along the Western Front in particular, were the killing fields. They formed a vast line of fortifications that locked the opposing armies together in a static, 400 mile zigzag of conflict from the channel coast down to the French border with Switzerland. Using his own diagrams and illustrations, ... Yorke explains the architecture of the trenches, with their command posts, tunnels, machine gun nests, duck boards and sleeping billets. There are chapters to explain tactics, weaponry and daily life ... special features on the introduction of new weapons of war, such as tanks, early aeroplanes and the first use of poison gas. The political events are described in basic outline, but there is a chapter on the legacy of the war's aftermath. There are summaries of the major battles and there is information about special places to visit in France and Belgium, including key museums, battle sites and memorials"--Back cover.
First World War 1914-1918
First World War 1914-1918 - 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 1914-1918 write by Imperial War Museum. This book was released on 1983. First World War 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
