Gallipoli To The Somme

Author : Alexander Aitken
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781775589785

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Gallipoli to the Somme by Alexander Aitken Pdf

Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers of memory were dazzling. When a vital roll-book was lost with the dead, he was able to dictate the full name, regimental number, next of kin and address of next of kin for every member of his former platoon—a total of fifty-six men. Everything he saw, he could remember. Aitken began to write about his experiences in 1917 as a wounded out-patient in Dunedin Hospital. Every few years, when the war trauma caught up with him, he revisited the manuscript, which was eventually published as Gallipoli to the Somme in 1963. Aitken writes with a unique combination of restraint, subtlety, and an almost photographic vividness. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature on the strength of this single work—a book recognised by its first reviewers as a literary memoir of the Great War to put alongside those by Graves, Blunden and Sassoon. Long out of print, this is by some distance the most perceptive memoir of the First World War by a New Zealand soldier. For this edition, Alex Calder has written a new introduction, annotated the text, compiled a selection of images, and added a commemorative index identifying the soldiers with whom Aitken served.

Author : David Fallon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547052944

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The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon Pdf

"The Big Fight" is a war memoir by David Fallon. He was of Irish ancestry but a British soldier when WWI happened. He was first sent to Sydney to assist with enlistment, but he was flustered to enroll in the front lines, becoming an Anzac and thus a part of the catastrophic landing at Gallipoli (1915). As he describes it, the landing is like a scene from Saving Private Ryan, with Fallon's boat shelled, the men shot in the water or tangled up in a barbed-wire trap, the dead rapidly piling up on the beach, and the living bewildered and exhausted, attacked and pounded by enemy fire. As if witnessing the heaviest fighting at Gallipoli and afterward the Somme wasn't enough...

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605987651

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The Somme by Peter Hart Pdf

One of the bloodiest battles in world history—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the “Big Push” that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century warfare. Scrambling out of trenches in the face of German machine guns and artillery fire, the Allied Powers lost over twenty thousand soldiers that first day. This “battle” would drag on for another four bloody months, resulting in over one million causalities among the three powers. As the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, Peter Hart has brought to light new material never before seen or heard. The Somme is an unparalleled evocation of World War I’s iconic contest—the definitive account of one of the major tragedies of the twentieth century.

Author : Alexander Aitken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310807983

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Gallipoli to the Somme by Alexander Aitken Pdf

Author : Stephen Chambers
Publisher : Battleground Gallipoli
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1473825644

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Walking Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers Pdf

Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning, this grand scale 1915 operation was plagued with mismanagement; failure in high places that betrayed the heroism in the field. Though a noble disaster with casualties of over half a million, those who visit Gallipoli today owe it to those who served and died a conscious effort to see beyond the heartbreak and futility, to appreciate the what, the how and the why. There is no better way to do this today other than walking the battlefields with this invaluable guide. From the beaches and fields of Helles, to the precipitous heights of Anzac and to the plains of Suvla, this book guides the walker to the key points of the campaign. Infamous names that are synonymous with the fighting are covered; Sedd-el Bahr, Krithia, Achi Baba, The Vineyard, Gully Ravine, Kereviz Dere, Lone Pine, The Nek, Chunuk Bair, Lala Baba, Chocolate Hill, Kidney Hill and Kiretch Tepe. All of these features are set in a haunting scene of beauty and tragedy that still pervades this eastern Mediterranean peninsula. In total there are ten walks, some challenging, others not, with a narrative that helps make sense of it all.

Author : Captain David Fallon M.C.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255273

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The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] by Captain David Fallon M.C. Pdf

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos “Gallipoli and the Western Front to the end of 1916, as experienced by the author who served with the Australians and 1/Buckingham Bn of the O&B LI This book is an account of the author’s battlefield experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Fallon was a pre-war regular (Northumberland Fusiliers) who, when war broke out, was a staff sergeant instructor at the Australian Royal Military College in Duntroon. Transferred in some unexplained fashion to the Australian army he took part in the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915, which he describes in gory detail, as he does the rest of the fighting till he was evacuated in December. Back in the British army he was commisioned into the Buckingham Battalion (TF) of the O & B LI (145th Bde/48th Division) with which he fought on the Western Front till badly wounded at the end of 1916. He seems to go out of his way to make his descriptions of the fighting as bloody as possible, and as for the Germans, he has a chapter entitled “Hun Beastliness” in which he makes unbelievable statements such as the two examples which follow: It was the nude body of the Mother Superior. She had been nailed to the door. She had been crucified. In the ruins we brought out the bodies of four nuns, unspeakably mutilated. Their bodies had been stabbed and slashed each more than a hundred times. They had gone to martyrdom resisting incredible brutes. They had fought hard, the blond hair of their assassins clutched in their dead hands. And again, at Wytschaete: Above the wreck of the skyline trench bayonets stuck up, and on them were the severed heads, with horrible smiles under their English caps, of twenty of my men. Referring to German soldiers he writes: They hate the bayonet. The cold steel is not for Hans. Shades of Dad’s Army, Lcpl Jones and “They don’t like it up ‘em”.”-Print ed.

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922132642

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Snowy to the Somme by Tim Cook Pdf

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war. They answered the call and formed battalions of the Australian Imperial Force. By the time the new recruits were combat ready, the campaign at Gallipoli had ended. Their battlefields became the muddy paddocks of France and Belgium. Based on eyewitness accounts, Snowy to the Somme traces the story of one of these battalions, the 55th, from its birth in the dusty camps of Egypt through three years of brutal, bloody conflict on the bitter Western Front. When the Great War ended in 1918, over 500 of the 3,000 men who served in the 55th had been slain and another 1,000 wounded. Snowy to the Somme, shares personal stories of Australian men as they stared down the horrors of war with determination, courage and mateship. With chapters devoted to the significant battles at Fromelles, Doignies, Polygon Wood, Péronne and Bellicourt, this book tells the story of one battalion, but in doing so it encapsulates the experiences of many Australians on the Western Front.

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199836864

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Gallipoli by Peter Hart Pdf

"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books"--T.p. verso.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415089952

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The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Fallon
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1406860980

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The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) (Illustrated Edition) by David Fallon Pdf

An account of his experiences at Gallipoli and the Somme during the First World War by a Captain who served with the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry and who received the Military Cross. First published in 1918.

Author : Andrew Macdonald
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Battlefields
ISBN : 1775540405

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First Day of the Somme by Andrew Macdonald Pdf

"A detailed description of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, on 1 July 1916, during the First World War, viewing the events from the point of view of both the Allied and German forces"--Publisher information.

Author : Timothy J. Cook
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458739902

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Snowy to the Somme by Timothy J. Cook Pdf

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to go to war.They answered the call and formed battalions of the Australian Imperial Force. By the time the new recruits were combat ready, the campaign at Gallipoli had ended. Their battlefields became the muddy paddocks of France and Belgium.Based on eyewitness accounts, Snowy to the Somme traces the story of one of these battalions, the 55th, from its birth in the dusty camps of Egypt through three years of brutal, bloody conflict on the bitter Western Front. When the Great War ended in 1918, over 500 of the 3,000 men who served in the 55th had been slain and another 1,000 wounded. Snowy to the Somme, shares personal stories of Australian men as they stared down the horrors of war with determination, courage and mateship. With chapters devoted to the significant battles at Fromelles, Doignies, Polygon Wood, Peronne and Bellicourt, this book tells the story of one battalion, but in doing so it encapsulates the experiences of many Australians on the Western Front.

Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775592402

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The Devil's Own War by John Crawford Pdf

The first (hardback) edition of this book sold out before its official publication date, and public demand has been so great that a paperback edition will now be published. Brigadier-General Herbert Hart landed at Gallipoli on 26 April 1915, commanded the Wellington Battalion during the closing stages of that campaign, then served as a battalion and brigade commander on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918. Throughout the war he kept a diary, in which he recorded his experiences in the great battles on Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele. Hart’s diary is now widely regarded as one of the most important personal sources relating to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Exceptionally well written, it includes gripping descriptions of both combat and life behind the front line and on leave in France and United Kingdom. While Hart can appear quite detached at times, he is also a very human observer of the events around him, understanding the plight of his men, finding humour in the most unlikely situations and noticing unexpected details at moments of high tension. As a first-hand account of life in the firestorm of World War One, The Devil’s Own War is hard to beat.

Author : Dudley McCarthy
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081504339

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Gallipoli to the Somme by Dudley McCarthy Pdf

Author : Robin Prior
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300159912

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Gallipoli by Robin Prior Pdf

The noted historian’s decisive and devastating history of the WWI Battle of Gallipoli “sets a new standard for assessing the Allied Dardanelles campaign" (Mustafa Aksakal, American Historical Review). The Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to take control of the Dardanelles, secure a sea route to Russia, and create a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in disaster, and the Allied forces suffered some 390,000 casualties. In this conclusive study, military historian Robin Prior assesses the many myths about Gallipoli and provides definitive answers to questions that have lingered about the operation. Prior proceeds step by step through the campaign, dealing with naval, military, and political matters and surveying the operations of all the armies involved: British, Anzac, French, Indian, and Turkish. Relying on primary documents, including war diaries and technical military sources, Prior evaluates the strategy, the commanders, and the performance of soldiers on the ground. His conclusions are powerful and unsettling: the naval campaign was not “almost” won, and the land action was not bedeviled by “minor misfortunes.” Instead, the badly conceived Gallipoli campaign was doomed from the start. And even had it been successful, the operation would not have shortened the war by a single day. Despite their bravery, the Allied troops who fell at Gallipoli died in vain. A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2009