British French And American Relations On The Western Front 1914 1918

Author : Chris Kempshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319894652

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British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 by Chris Kempshall Pdf

This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause. Using the diaries, records, and letters of these men, Chris Kempshall shows how these soldiers interacted with each other during four years of war. The British army that arrived in France in 1914 became isolated from their French allies and unable to coordinate with them. By 1916, Britain’s professional soldiers were replaced by civilians who learned to love their French ally, who reached out to them in friendship. At the end of the war the introduction of American soldiers caused hope and conflict before perceived British failures brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. Final cooperation between these three nations saw them victorious.

Author : William J. Philpott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349245116

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Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914–18 by William J. Philpott Pdf

This book is a study of Anglo-French relations and military policy making in the First World War, which considers the strategic policies and operational planning of the British and French armies in the joint campaign fought on the western front. It examines the influence of incompatible British and French strategic objectives, the role of the allies' military and political leaders and the institutional development of the military alliance, on the alliance relationship and military policy making.

Author : William James Philpott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : France
ISBN : 0333631250

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Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front 1914-18 by William James Philpott Pdf

This book is a study of Anglo-French relations and military policy making in the First World War, which considers the strategic policies and operational planning of the British and French armies in the joint campaign fought on the western front. It examines the influence of incompatible British and French strategic objectives, the role of the allies' military and political leaders and the institutional development of the military alliance, on the alliance relationship and military policy making.

Author : Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener,Alexandre Millerand,Sir Edward Grey,Colonel H LeRoy Lewis,Colonel L de la Panouse,Charles de Broqueville,Lieutenant General Henry Hughes Wilson,Pierre Paul Cambon,Colonel Henry Yarde Buller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1265032126

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Western Front 1914-1916: Relations with France by Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener,Alexandre Millerand,Sir Edward Grey,Colonel H LeRoy Lewis,Colonel L de la Panouse,Charles de Broqueville,Lieutenant General Henry Hughes Wilson,Pierre Paul Cambon,Colonel Henry Yarde Buller Pdf

Description: Western Front 1914-1916 detailing relations with France. Includes correspondence from the French War Office, British Embassy in Paris and between Lord Kitchener and Alexandre Millerand from the French War Ministry.

Author : Roy A. Prete
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0773540792

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Strategy and Command by Roy A. Prete Pdf

In the first of three projected volumes, Prete crafts a behind-the-scenes look at Anglo-French command relations during World War I, from the start of the conflict until 1915, when trench warfare drastically altered the situation. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prete argues that the British government's primary interest lay in the defence of the empire; the small expeditionary force sent to France was progressively enlarged because the French, especially Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre, dragged their British ally into a progressively greater involvement. Several crises in Anglo-French command relations derived from these competing strategic objectives. New information gleaned from French public and private archives - including private diaries - enlarge our understanding of key players in the allied relationship.

Author : Roy A. Prete
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228005760

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Strategy and Command by Roy A. Prete Pdf

Falling between the "War of Movement" in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever-increasing offensives to break through the German trenches, Britain shifted its strategy from defence of empire to total commitment to the continental war. In the second of three planned volumes, Roy Prete analyzes the political and military policies and strategies of Britain and France and their joint command relationship on the Western Front in 1915. The opposing strategies of the two governments proved to be the main determinant in the sometimes ragged relations between the French commander-in-chief, Joseph Joffre, and his British counterpart, Sir John French, as they sought to drive the German army out of France and to aid their hard-pressed Russian ally. With an impressive marshalling of evidence, Strategy and Command demonstrates that the increased British commitment to the continental war, manifested in sending Kitchener's New Armies to France in 1915, was largely due to the disastrous situation of the Russian army on the Eastern Front and the perceived weakness of the French government. Based on extensive research in French political and military archives, this new in-depth study of Anglo-French military relations on the Western Front in 1915 fills a major gap in the unfolding drama of the First World War.

Author : C. Kempshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137491763

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The First World War in Computer Games by C. Kempshall Pdf

The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through computer games. This book explores how computer games are at the forefront of new representations of the First World War.

Author : Alan Beyerchen,Emre Sencer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030250300

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Expeditionary Forces in the First World War by Alan Beyerchen,Emre Sencer Pdf

When war engulfed Europe in 1914, the conflict quickly took on global dimensions. Although fighting erupted in Africa and Asia, the Great War primarily pulled troops from around the world into Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Amid the fighting were large numbers of expeditionary forces—and yet they have remained largely unstudied as a collective phenomenon, along with the term “expeditionary force” itself. This collection examines the expeditionary experience through a wide range of case studies. They cover major themes such as the recruitment, transport, and supply of far-flung troops; the cultural and linguistic dissonance, as well as gender relations, navigated by soldiers in foreign lands; the political challenge of providing a rationale to justify their dislocation and sacrifice; and the role of memory and memorialization. Together, these essays open up new avenues for understanding the experiences of soldiers who fought the First World War far from home.

Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918 by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson Pdf

Author : Philip Hammond,Holger Pötzsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501351167

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War Games by Philip Hammond,Holger Pötzsch Pdf

Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by recent news headlines or drawn from history. While such games are marketed as authentic representations of war, they often provide a selective form of realism that eschews problematic, yet salient aspects of war. In addition, changes in the way Western states wage and frame actual wars makes contemporary conflicts increasingly resemble videogames when perceived from the vantage point of Western audiences. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from games studies, media and cultural studies, politics and international relations, and related fields to examine the complex relationships between military-themed videogames and real-world conflict, and to consider how videogames might deal with history, memory, and conflict in alternative ways. It asks: What is the role of videogames in the formation and negotiation of cultural memory of past wars? How do game narratives and designs position the gaming subject in relation to history, war and militarism? And how far do critical, anti-war/peace games offer an alternative or challenge to mainstream commercial titles?

Author : Julian Walker
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526765932

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Tommy French by Julian Walker Pdf

‘Napoo’, ‘compray’, ‘san fairy ann’, ‘toot sweet’ are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War as British troops struggled to communicate in French. Over four years of war they created an extraordinary slang which reflects the period and brings the conflict to mind whenever it is heard today. Julian Walker, in this original and meticulously researched book, explores the subject in fascinating detail. In the process he gives us an insight into the British soldiers’ experience in France during the war and the special language they invented in order to cope with their situation. He shows how French place-names were anglicized as were words for food and drink, and he looks at what these slang terms tell us about the soldiers’ perception of France, their relationship with the French and their ideas of home. He traces the spread of ‘Tommy French’ back to the Home Front, where it was popularized in songs and on postcards, and looks at the French reaction to the anglicization of their language.

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866152

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The Great War by Ian F. W. Beckett Pdf

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

Author : James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610699341

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Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts through Primary Sources [4 volumes] by James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener Pdf

An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history. Primary source analysis is a valuable tool that teaches students how historians utilize documents and interpret evidence from the past. This four-volume reference traces key decisions in U.S. military history—from the Revolutionary War through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq—by examining documents relating to military strategy and national policy judgments by U.S. military and political leaders. A comprehensive introductory essay provides readers with the context necessary to understand the relationship between diplomatic documents, military correspondence, and other documentation related to events that shaped warfare, diplomacy, and military strategy. Once the stage is set, the work covers 14 conflicts that are significant to U.S. history. Treatment of each of the conflicts begins with a historical overview followed by a chronology and approximately 30 primary source documents presented in chronological order. Each document is accompanied by a description and annotations and by an analysis that highlights its importance to the event or topic under discussion. Designed for secondary school and college students, the work will be exceptionally valuable to teachers who will appreciate the ready-made lessons that fit directly into core curriculum standards.

Author : David R. Woodward
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438118963

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World War I Almanac by David R. Woodward Pdf

Presents a day-by-day chronology of the events of World War I and a biographical dictionary of people involved in the conflict.

Author : Alistair Watts
Publisher : Aykay Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780473560362

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New Zealand's France by Alistair Watts Pdf

In New Zealand’s France, Dr Alistair Watts investigates the origins of the New Zealand nation state from a fresh perspective — one that moves beyond the traditional bicultural view prevalent in the current New Zealand historiography. That New Zealand became British in the 1840s owes much, Dr Watts contends, to that other great colonial power of the time, France. The rich history of British antagonism towards the French was transported to New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s as part of the British colonists’ cultural baggage, to be used in creating an old identity in a new land. Even as the British colonists sought a new beginning, this defining anti-French characteristic caused them to override the existing Māori culture with their own constructs of time and place. Leaving their signature names in the cities of Wellington and Nelson and naming their streets after Waterloo and Collingwood, the British colonisers attempted to establish a local antithesis of France through a bucolic Little Britain in the South Pacific. It was this legacy, as much as the assumed bicultural origins of modern New Zealand, that produced a Pacific country that still relies on the symbolism of the Union Jack embedded in the national flag and the totemic constitutional presence of the British Crown to maintain its national identity. This is the story of how this came about.