Crossing No Man S Land

Author : Tony Ball
Publisher : Wolverhampton Military Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1910777730

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This book addresses the potentially deadly challenge of getting across No Man's Land in good shape to fight at the other side. It explores the development of the British Army's infantry battle tactics during the Great War using the largest infantry regiment, the Northumberland Fusiliers, as a case study. Principles and, in particular, practice are covered. The study demonstrates the transformation of the British Army from an essentially Victorian army to a recognizably modern army; adapting tactics to the circumstances and saving lives in teh process. A novel research approach is used; comparing Army doctrine with the reality at battalion level which yields a unique insight into experience and learning on the Western Front. Two hundred and eleven attacks and 75 raids are identified through a census of all 28 of the Regiment's battalion war diaries covering 25,876 diary days. The analysis is set in the overall context of the War taking in the full sweep, from beginning to end, and also gives some small insight into the so called sideshows. A byproduct of the research approach has been a detailed activity analysis, the 'doings', summarizing what each Northumberland Fusiliers' battalion was engaged in every day and for the Regiment in aggregate. This is a secondary but no less valuable theme of the study, which also yields good material on infantry training. Furthermore, when activities are known on a daily basis, it is possible to correlate attacks with fatalities and to attempt to discover relationships between the two.

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330477932

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Oranges in No Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird Pdf

Oranges in No Man's Land brings Elizabeth Laird's emotional and gripping adventure to her next generation of fans. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no man's land divides the two sides. Only militiamen and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill, Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

Author : Doug Tatum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101216521

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No Man's Land by Doug Tatum Pdf

If starting a company is difficult, leading a company once the business has caught fire is infinitely more so. Thousands of startups each year approach the dangerous transition that Doug Tatum calls No Man's Land—when they are too big too be considered small but still too small to be considered big. Rapid growth is every entrepreneur's dream, but it never comes easily and is usually rife with dilemmas. Such growth should spark self-discovery, acquired discipline, and positive but difficult transition. Unfortunately, it often becomes an agonizng battle between the tendencies of a lonely entrepreneur and certain immutable laws of growth. The result is confusion, frustration, stagnation, loss of employee morale, and, at worst, financial failure. The good news is that Doug Tatum knows exactly what it takes to get through No Man's Land: a map, a high place from which to orient yourself, and navigational rules to help you track your progress. Through case studies and stories of successes and failures, No Man's Land will help you learn how to: • Align your growing company with its market. • Execute the necessary changes in your management. • Confirm that your financial model is scalable. • Attract money and make smart decisions about financing your business. If you're an entrepreneur, this book will help you make your company all it can be and all you want it to be.

Author : Meg Albrinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : War stories, English
ISBN : WISC:89070373675

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Crossing No Man's Land by Meg Albrinck Pdf

Author : Simon Tolkien
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385541985

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No Man's Land by Simon Tolkien Pdf

Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme. Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London comes to a sudden and tragic end when his mother is killed in a workers' protest march. His father, Daniel, is barely able to cope with the loss. But a job offer in the coal mining town of Scarsdale presents one last chance, so father and son head north. The relocation is hard on Adam: the local boys prove difficult to befriend, and he never quite fits in. Meanwhile tensions between the miners and their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, escalate, and finally explode with terrible consequences. In the aftermath, Adam's fate shifts once again, and he finds himself drawn into the opulent Scarsdale family home where he makes an enemy of Sir John's son, Brice, who subjects Adam to a succession of petty cruelties for daring to step above his station. However, Adam finds consolation in the company of Miriam, the local parson's beautiful daughter with whom he falls in love. When they become engaged and Adam wins a scholarship to Oxford, he starts to feel that his life is finally coming together—until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart. From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coal mine to the exposed terrors of the trenches in France; Adam's journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world.

Author : David Kenyon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844682362

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Horsemen in No Man's Land by David Kenyon Pdf

An in-depth look at the contributions of the British cavalry during World War I. Of what use was the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of the industrial age, by the machine gun and massed artillery, the cavalry was seen as an anachronism. It was vulnerable to modern armaments, of little value in combat and a waste of scarce resources. At least, that is the common viewpoint. Indeed, the cavalry have been consistently underestimated since the first histories of the Great War were written. But, in light of modern research, is this the right verdict? David Kenyon seeks to answer this question in his thought-provoking new study. His conclusions challenge conventional wisdom on the subject—they should prompt a radical reevaluation of the role of the horseman on the battlefields of France and Flanders a century ago. Using evidence gained from research into wartime records and the eyewitness accounts of the men who were there—who saw the cavalry in action—Kenyon reassesses the cavalry’s contribution and performance. He offers insight into cavalry tactics and the spirit of the cavalrymen of the time. He also examines how the cavalry combined with the other arms of the British army, in particular the tanks. His well-balanced and original study is essential reading for students of the Western Front and for anyone who is interested in the long history of cavalry combat.

Author : Aaron Pegram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486194

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Surviving the Great War by Aaron Pegram Pdf

Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.

Author : William March
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780817304805

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Company K by William March Pdf

A collection of short first-person narratives by the members of a company caught in the frontline in the first World War.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Delta
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385336796

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The Englishman's Daughter by Ben Macintyre Pdf

In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pass as Picard peasants. The Englishman’s Daughter is the never-before-told story of these extraordinary men, their protectors, and of the haunting love affair between Private Robert Digby and Claire Dessenne, the most beautiful woman in Villeret. Their passion would result in the birth of a child known as “The Englishman’s Daughter,” and in an act of unspeakable betrayal, a tragic legacy that would haunt the village for generations to come. Through the testimonies of the villagers and the last letters of the soldiers, acclaimed journalist Ben Macintyre has pieced together a harrowing account of how life was lived behind enemy lines during the Great War, and offers a compelling solution to a gripping mystery that reverberates to this day.

Author : Jason Medina
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781669876168

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No Man's Land by Jason Medina Pdf

THE UNDEAD NOVELS by Jason Medina THE MANHATTANVILLE INCIDENT: AN UNDEAD NOVEL (BOOK 1) AFTERMATH OF THE MANHATTANVILLE INCIDENT: AN UNDEAD NOVEL (BOOK 2) OTHER BOOKS by Jason Medina NO HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS AT KINGS PARK THE DIARY OF AUDREY MALONE FRAYER A GHOST IN NEW ORLEANS GHOSTS AND LEGENDS OF YONKERS KINGS PARK PSYCHIATRIC CENTER: A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY, VOL. I-III A NIGHT AT THE SHANLEY HOTEL MEG

Author : Judy Gahagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015047457372

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Crossing the No-man's Land by Judy Gahagan Pdf

Author : Kai Bird
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439171608

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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird Pdf

*From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus—the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer* Now with a new introduction, Kai Bird’s fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a charming American diplomat, moved to Jerusalem with his family. Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven through Mandelbaum Gate, where armed soldiers guarded the line separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from Arab-controlled East. Bird would spend much of his life crossing such lines—as a child in Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and later, as a young man in Lebanon. In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, a narrative that “rips along like a spy novel” (The New York Times Book Review), Bird’s retelling of “events such as Suez in 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and Black September in 1970 are as clear and fresh as yesterday” (The Spectator, UK). Bird vividly portrays emblematic figures like George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening; Jordan’s King Hussein; the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled; Salem bin Laden; Saudi King Faisal; President Nasser of Egypt; and Hillel Kook, the forgotten rescuer of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Bird, his parents sympathetic to Palestinian self-determination and his wife the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written a “kaleidoscopic and captivating” (Publishers Weekly) personal history of a troubled region and an indispensable addition to the literature on the modern Middle East.

Author : Justin VanOverloop Hastings
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Human territoriality
ISBN : 0801476798

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No Man's Land by Justin VanOverloop Hastings Pdf

Examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology--and how and when geography still matters, tracing the networks, command structures, and training programs of Southeast Asian terrorist, insurgent, and criminal groups.

Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781862302846

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Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers Pdf

Two interwoven stories linking Jacob Todd and his grandson visiting Amsterdam for the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Man's Land by Harold Pinter Pdf

A play about fiction and reality, in which an invited guest threatens to disrupt the self-contained refuge of his host.