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Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612344454
A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473815797
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 : Brigadier Colin R. Ballard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255211
Includes 17 maps and the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener served in the British Army from his teenage years in the Royal Engineers to his elevation to the highest military rank forty-four years later in 1916. In this balanced biography, written by a fellow British Army officer who served in the First World War, his long career in the army and as a colonial administrator is charted in vivid detail. Kitchener came to worldwide attention in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title “Lord Kitchener of Khartoum”; as Chief of Staff (1900–02) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts’ conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief–ultimately winning the war against the insurgent Boers. After a quarrelsome term as Commander-in-Chief (1902–09) in India he returned to Egypt as Consul-General. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister. One of the few to foresee a long war, he organised the largest volunteer army that both Britain and the world had seen, and oversaw a significant expansion of materials production to fight Germany on the Western Front. Despite having warned of the difficulty of provisioning Britain for a long war, he was blamed for the shortage of shells in the spring of 1915 – one of the events leading to the formation of a coalition government – and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy. Kitchener drowned on 5 June 1916 when HMS Hampshire sank west of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. He was making his way to Russia in order to attend negotiations but the ship struck a German mine. He was one of the 600 killed on board the ship.
Author : David French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317686941
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 : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719026385
Author : David French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473891630
How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking collection of original essays on the outcome of the war and its aftermath is of such value.It completes the trilogy of ground-breaking volumes conceived and edited by Peter Liddle which presents the latest scholarly thinking about the Great War from an international perspective. The first two volumes Britain Goes to War and Britain and the Widening War made this stimulating new writing accessible to a broad readership and this final volume has the same aim.A group of over twenty expert contributors reconsider the military reasons for the outcome of the fighting and look at the consequences for the principal nations involved. They explore the way the war and the peace settlement shaped the twentieth century and had an enduring impact within Europe and beyond.
Author : George.H. Cassar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319393636
This book covers the tenure of Kitchener as Proconsul in Egypt in the years preceding the First World War. Based mostly on unpublished sources – including government records and private papers – it not only fills a gap in the life and career of Kitchener, the most famous soldier in Britain since Wellington, but it also deals with an important but practically unknown period in Egyptian history. George Cassar shows Kitchener to be an ardent imperialist, but one who had a sense of responsibility to the country he governed. Exchanging his field marshal’s uniform for the dress of a statesman, he arrived in Egypt when British prestige was at a low point on account of his predecessor’s policies. He restored political stability, created conditions that bolstered the economy, and introduced a wave of reforms. Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914 reveals how Kitchener’s interest extended beyond Egypt, and how throughout these years he worked quietly to prepare the ground in an attempt to create an Arab Empire under Britain’s suzerainty.
Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0649622634
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Author : Bradford A. Lee,Karl F. Walling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135759797
One of three volumes in honour of the teaching and scholarship of the late Michael I. Handel, this book details the universal logic of strategy and the ability of liberal-democratic governments to address this logic rationally. Treating war as an extension of politics, the diverse contributors (drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Israel) explore the difficulties in matching strategy to policy, especially in free societies.
Author : John Fisher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0714644293
John Fisher explores the acquisitive thinking which, from the autumn of 1914, drove the Mesopotamian Expedition, and examines the political issues, international and imperial, delegated to a War Cabinet committee under Lord Curzon. The motives of Curzon and others in attempting to obtain a privileged political position in the Hejaz are studied in the context of inter-Allied suspicions and Turkish intrigues in the Arabian Peninsula. This is a penetrating study of war imperialism, when statesmen contemplated strong measures of control in several areas of the Middle East.
Author : W.R. Chadwick
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Harold Begbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436883881
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : C. Brad Faught
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857727565
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In between he became both the most famous British soldier in the world during the peak period of European imperialism, and a celebrated and sometimes controversial pro-consul and administrator. At his death in 1916 he had literally become the 'face' of the British war effort. This new biography offers a timely and modern evaluation of a still disputed and complex military man of empire.
Author : David Silbey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134269754
This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to fill the ranks.
