VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows - 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 VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2014-08-01. VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thirteenth and final volume of the VCs of the First World War series features the lives and careers of forty-six servicemen who won the coveted Victoria Cross in theatres of war – or ' Sideshows', as they became known – beyond the Western Front and Gallipoli. Opening with the stories of four VC winners who took part in the prolonged struggle to drive the German Army out of East Africa, VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows goes on to tell the stories of the two Indian Army winners of the VC defending the North-West Frontier. Finally, it covers the campaigns against the Austro–German forces in Italy; securing the oil wells in Mesopotamia (later Iraq); defending the Suez Canal and attacking the Ottoman Army in Palestine and lastly serving in Salonika in the Balkans. Each VC winner's act of bravery is recorded here in intricate detail, together with the background of the men and their lives after the war – if they survived.
The Sideshows
The Sideshows - 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 Sideshows write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2005. The Sideshows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this final volume of Sutton's benchmark series, founding author Gerald Gliddon covers all the 'sideshows' from 1914 to 1918 in which forty-six Victoria Crosses were won beyond the Western Front and Gallipoli. The outbreak of the First World War saw Allied forces across Africa preparing to drive the Germans out of their possessions. Four men earned the Victoria Cross in the prolonged struggle that ensued. Two further VCs were awarded to men of the Indian Army as the British sought to retain control of the North-West Frontier. Fourteen VCs were won in Palestine from mid-1917, as the British went on the offensive and attacked the Ottoman army from bases defending the Suez Canal. Following the Austro-German rout of Italian forces at Caporetto in October 1917, British troops were deployed in Italy. Four VCs were won in this theatre, as the Allies first repelled Austro-German attacks and then launched a series of offensives of their own. Two VCs were also awarded to members of the British Salonika Force, which fought in the Balkans from October 1915. British troops also saw action in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, firstly to protect their country's oil interest and later to prosecute the war against the Turks. Despite initial success, the British suffered an unprecedented military disaster in April 1916 when a substantial British and Indian force was compelled to surrender to its Ottoman opponents at Kut-el-Amara. The unsuccessful attempts to relieve the Kut garrison resulted in the award of eleven VCs; in total, twenty were won in this theatre.
VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli
VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli - 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 VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli write by Stephen Snelling. This book was released on 2012-05-30. VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign which Churchill hoped would knock Turkey out of the war. For a campaign that promised so much, it ultimately became a tragedy of lost opportunities. By January 1916, when the last men were taken off the peninsula, the casualties totalled 205,000. This book tells the stories of the 39 men whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, among them the war's first Australian VC, first New Zealand VC, and first Royal Marine VC. It represents the highest number of VCs won in a theatre of war, other than the Western Front.
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt & Palestine Campaigns
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt & Palestine Campaigns - 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 Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt & Palestine Campaigns write by Stuart Hadaway. This book was released on 2017-06-30. Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt & Palestine Campaigns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestors actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different to those who served on the Western Front, and yet have never before been explored from this angle.Hundreds of thousands of British and Imperial troops fought in the Western Desert, Sinai Desert, Palestine, the Jordan Valley and Syria. They served in conditions quite unlike those more familiarly faced in France and Flanders, with everyday challenges to survival including the heat, lack of water, hostile wildlife and rampant disease. The fighting too was of a different character, with more open, sweeping campaigns across desert and mountains, and comparatively little systematic trench warfare.As well as giving the reader a vivid impression of the experience of wartime service in the region, Stuart Hadaways handbook provides a guide to the main sources, archives and websites that researchers can consult to get an insight into their ancestors role and their contribution to the war effort.
Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II
Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II - 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 Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II write by Michael Ashcroft. This book was released on 2016-11-08. Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War. Lord Ashcroft, who has been fascinated with bravery since he was a young boy, now owns 200 VCs, by far the largest collection of its kind in the world. Following on from the bestselling Victoria Cross Heroes, first published in 2006 to mark the 150th anniversary of the award, Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II gives extraordinary accounts of the bravery behind the newest additions to Lord Ashcroft's VC collection - those decorations purchased in the last decade. With nearly sixty action-packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross. Their inspirational deeds of valour and self-sacrifice should be championed and never forgotten.
