The Last Fighting Tommy - 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 Last Fighting Tommy write by Harry Patch. This book was released on 2008-06-02. The Last Fighting Tommy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary and moving story of a man, now aged 108, whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty Prime Ministers .
Murderous Tommies
Murderous Tommies - 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 Murderous Tommies write by Julian Putkowski. This book was released on 2012-09-19. Murderous Tommies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offenses, all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However, until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act and executed for murder. The British Army has always been reticent about publicizing courts martial and eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then, public attention tended to concentrate on cases involving soldiers who had been shot at dawn for offenses other than homicide, and virtually nobody was inclined to seek a posthumous pardon or judicial review for the murderous Tommies. This meant neither the victims nor the convicted mens families were able to discover details about the murder cases. Though readily identifiable online via much-visited war cemetery websites, until now there has been no readily accessible, historically reliable and balanced narrative about the activities and courts-martial of all the murderous Tommies of the Western Front. This book provides for a full account of the cases involving the fourteen soldiers and one officer whose homicidal misdeeds were committed in France and Flanders while hostilities were in progress.Drawing on contemporary records, this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these men either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed civilian. It examines the murderers motives and presents a balanced analysis of each case, including a detailed assessment of the extent to which each condemned man was granted a fair hearing by officers who sat in uneasy judgment as well as those involved in confirming the death sentences.
Tommy's War
Tommy's 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 Tommy's War write by Richard van Emden. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Tommy's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shares excerpts from the personal diaries and photographs of British soldiers to depict the daily life of a Tommy in the trenches between 1914 and 1918.
Somme
Somme - 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 Somme write by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. This book was released on 2016-08-15. Somme available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign—victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to stories of the front line—to acts of heroism and moments of both terror and triumph—we can counter, and even change, familiar narratives. Planned as a decisive strike but fought as a bloody battle of attrition, the Battle of the Somme claimed over a million dead or wounded in months of fighting that have long epitomized the tragedy and folly of World War I. Yet by focusing on the first-hand experiences and personal stories of both Allied and enemy soldiers, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore defies the customary framing of incompetent generals and senseless slaughter. In its place, eyewitness accounts relive scenes of extraordinary courage and sacrifice, as soldiers ordered “over the top” ventured into No Man’s Land and enemy trenches, where they met a hail of machine-gun fire, thickets of barbed wire, and exploding shells. Rescuing from history the many forgotten heroes whose bravery has been overlooked, and giving voice to their bereaved relatives at home, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore reveals the Somme campaign in all its glory as well as its misery, helping us to realize that there are many meaningful ways to define a battle when seen through the eyes of those who lived it.
The Missing of the Somme
The Missing of the Somme - 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 Missing of the Somme write by Geoff Dyer. This book was released on 2012-11-08. The Missing of the Somme available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
