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Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226904474
English and German. Includes index.
Author : David Silbey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134269747
Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and then, in 1918, thrust back the German Army to win t
Author : Professor Michael S Neiberg
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908273109
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.
Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612344454
A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735233119
The first comprehensive history of Canadians in WWI in forty years, and already hailed as the definitive work on Canadians in the Great War, At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of 1914—16. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands, died before the generals and soldiers found a way to break the terrible stalemate of the front. Based on eyewitness accounts detailed in the letters of ordinary soldiers, Cook describes the horrible struggle, first to survive in battle, and then to drive the Germans back. At the Sharp End provides both an intimate look at the Canadian men in the trenches and an authoritative account of the slow evolution in tactics, weapons, and advancement. Featuring never-before-published photographs, letters, diaries, and maps, this recounting of the Great War through the soldiers' eyes is moving, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.
Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735233102
Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign. Through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches on the Western Front, and based on newly uncovered Canadian, British, and German archival sources, Cook builds on Volume I of his national bestseller, At the Sharp End. The Canadian fighting forces never lost a battle during the final 2 years of the war, and although they paid a terrible price in the killing fields of the Great War, they were indeed, as British Prime Minister David Lloyd George exclaimed, the shock troops of the Empire.
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844155859
Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.
Author : David French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317686958
This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
Author : Michael Brock,Eleanor Brock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191009396
Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling record of her husband's fall from grace. An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an aristocrat, Margot was both a spectator and a participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George ('a natural adventurer who may make or mar himself any day'), Churchill ('Winston's vanity is septic'), and Kitchener ('a man brutal by nature and by pose'). Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider's view of the centre of power, and an introduction by Michael Brock, in addition to explanatory footnotes and appendices written with his wife Eleanor, provide the context and background information we need to appreciate them to the full.
Author : Jane Gould
Publisher : World War I: Remembering the G
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778703908
Making the 100th anniversary of World War I, this series presents the dramatic course of events of the Great War and the conflict's lasting impact on the world. Discover the political and social turmoil of the time, the horrific conditions of trench warfare, the gripping accounts of naval combat, and the hero worship of flying aces. Short biographies and first-hand accounts help young readers relate to this world-changing period in history. After the assassination or Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, war was declared by Europe's five great powers. Although it was a European war, colonies also had to supply forces for European battles. World War I: 1914-1916 - A Terrible New Warfare Begins follows the first few years of the Great War. Opposing countries were equally matched in lighting power and relied on naval and U-boat blockades. They also dug in for a new kind of long-term fighting-trench warfare. Book jacket.
Author : Jane H. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1489817247
Presents information about the events leading to World War 1 and how trench warfare became the new way of fighting in this war.
Author : W.R. Chadwick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889202269
Chronicles the events of 1916--a watershed year in the history of the small Canadian town known today as Kitchener, Ontario. The community, founded by German immigrants, was in turmoil over attempts to raise a battalion to support the British war effort, and that turmoil broke down the established order and culminated in the town's name change. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Author : C.R.M.F. Cruttwell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897336604
This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.
Author : Angus Mitchell
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785370595
One Bold Deed of Open Treason describes the astonishing journey by Roger Casement to Germany in 1914, via New York and Norway. Arriving into Berlin under a false identity, Casement entered a space of conspiracy and subterfuge. Through his vivid and gripping diary entries, a picture emerges of a man caught in the crossfire of international events and spiralling towards a tragic denouement. In recording his daily thoughts, emotions and movements, Casement chronicles his despair at the conflict he witnessed, his hopeless mission to raise an Irish brigade and his attempts to promote the cause of Ireland in an escalating world crisis. With an expert editorial hand, Angus Mitchell provides clear context to Casement’s diaries, revealing his gruelling visit to the Western Front, the shocking interplay between the Easter Rising and the international theatre of the First World War, and the grand, sacrificial conclusion of his life.
