VCs The Final Days 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 VCs The Final Days 1918 write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2014-07-15. VCs The Final Days 1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The latest volume in the series covering the final days of the war on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the Armistice on 11 November 1918. The book opens with the stories of seven VC-winners who took part in the Battle of the Canal du Nord on 27 September 1918. Despite enemy resistance, the British First and Third Armies advanced six miles, leading eventually to the successful capture of Cambrai. The last period of the war became a series of battles to capture a series of river lines. From the Battle of the Canal du Nord until Armistice Day, a period of just under six weeks, a total of 56 VCs were won in the victorious Allied advance. The VC winners came from France and Canada as well.
VCs of the First World War: the Final Days 1918
VCs of the First World War: the Final Days 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 VCs of the First World War: the Final Days 1918 write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2014-07-15. VCs of the First World War: the Final Days 1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line - the end of the war on the Western Front was at last in sight. These final days became a series of battles to capture a number of river lines: as each one was captured by the Allies, the German Army fell back to the next. Despite stiff resistance from the enemy, the Allies slowly advanced. The Germans became increasingly demoralised, and about a quarter of their army surrendered.By the beginning of November the Allies had closed in until they were flanking the Forest of Mormal, surrounding the enemy. On 11 November the Canadian Corps retook Mons and, following the signing of the armistice, the guns finally fell silent at 11 a.m. Covering the six-week period from the Battle of Canal du Nord to Armistice Day, this volume tells the story of the fifty-six VC winners from France, Canada and Britain who fought in the victorious Allied advance.
The Final Days 1918
The Final Days 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 Final Days 1918 write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2000-01-01. The Final Days 1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers the six weeks from the Battle of the Canal du Nord until Armistice Day. Arranged chronologically, the author's narrative tells the stories of the fifty-six VC-winners from France, Canada and Britain who fought in the victorious allied advance.
VCs Handbook
VCs Handbook - 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 Handbook write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2005-09-28. VCs Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. A companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order.
VCs of the North
VCs of the North - 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 North write by Alan Whitworth. This book was released on 2015-10-30. VCs of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and almost fifty of them have gone to the soldiers of Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland . Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite band of heroes. Within this group of Northern VC recipients are a number of outstanding names, including Richard Annand who gained the first VC of the Second World War and Roland Bradford who was one of only four sets of brothers to have secured the VC. He also had the distinction of becoming the youngest general in the British army. But among the roll of the brave whose gallantry and self-sacrifice are celebrated in these pages the reader will find the names and extraordinary deeds of many other men who were either born or bred or lived and died in the North. They will also find the story of the youngest Victoria Cross recipient who won his award aged just nineteen. The stories of these ordinary individuals who have 'performed some signal act of valour or devotion to their country' will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in military history in general and in the long military tradition of the North of England.
