Pens And Bayonets

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743056103

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Pens and Bayonets by Anonim Pdf

Pens and Bayonets gives voice to the young Australia soldiers who volunteered to fight for our freedom in the Great War. They answered the call willingly, with many thinking it may be all over before they got there. How wrong they were. South Australia, and Yorke Peninsula in particular, were proud to provide soldiers for their country. The letters were written during quiet periods and give us an insight and sometimes graphic account of the day-to-day encounters during the Gallipoli campaign and various offensives on the Western Front and Palestine. Communication options abound in the modern age, but imagine the challenges of 100 years ago, with your son, brother, uncle or nephew on the other side of the world, fighting in what we now know to be horrendous conditions, writing a letter home. It would take months for the letter to arrive. With the letter came a connection with family that gave a belief that their loved ones were safe and, importantly, the needed hope that the end of the Great War would bring them home. The letters the soldiers received, many weeks after being written, gave comfort and solace to these men, and provided their only contact with loved ones. Don Longo has gathered many of these moving letters, and set them in their historical context, to bring these soldiers back to life.

Author : John Norris
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473883789

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Fix Bayonets! by John Norris Pdf

The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that The bullet misses, the bayonet does not. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being used by every army in Europe. The author examines the spread of this simple weapon and how it led to fundamental changes being made in battlefield tactics. Over 300 years later, in the age of hi-tech warfare and weapons of mass destruction, the bayonet is still in service with armies around the world. British and US forces in Afghanistan regularly have their bayonets fixed. Fix Bayonets illustrates how tactics changed and the design of the weapon, although fundamentally the same, has evolved over the centuries.Much myth and legend surrounds the subject of bayonet charges and the weapon has become an icon of defiance and the determination to do whatever it takes to win. The author examines evidence for the reality of such actions. How did the ordinary soldier feel to be told 'fix bayonets'? John Norris draws on personal accounts of soldiers using bayonets in combat from the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, various Colonial campaigns, through the World Wars, Falklands War and into the 21st century in Afghanistan. In so doing he explains the seemingly anachronistic survival of this simple weapon on the modern battlefield.

Author : Emily Robins Sharpe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501426

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Mosaic Fictions by Emily Robins Sharpe Pdf

Mosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler.

Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Christian life
ISBN : UGA:32108004387331

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Pen, Pulpit and Platform by Thomas De Witt Talmage Pdf

Author : Alan D. Gaff
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135859

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Bayonets in the Wilderness by Alan D. Gaff Pdf

"In this military history, Gaff documents the British and French influence, the famed battle at Fallen Timbers, and the Treaty of Greeneville, which ended hostilities in the region. His account brings to light alliances between Indian forces and the British military, demonstrating that British troops still conducted operations on American soil long after the supposed end of the American Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0198041195

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The Scratch of a Pen by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its colonies toward rebellion. White settlers, free to pour into the West, clashed as never before with Indian tribes struggling to defend their way of life. In the Northwest, Pontiac's War brought racial conflict to its bitterest level so far. Whole ethnic groups migrated, sometimes across the continent: it was 1763 that saw many exiled settlers from Acadia in French Canada move again to Louisiana, where they would become Cajuns. Calloway unfurls this panoramic canvas with vibrant narrative skill, peopling his tale with memorable characters such as William Johnson, the Irish baronet who moved between Indian campfires and British barracks; Pontiac, the charismatic Ottawa chieftain; and James Murray, Britains first governor in Quebec, who fought to protect the religious rights of his French Catholic subjects. Most Americans know the significance of the Declaration of Independence or the Emancipation Proclamation, but not the Treaty of Paris. Yet 1763 was a year that shaped our history just as decisively as 1776 or 1862. This captivating book shows why. Winner of the Society of Colonial Wars Book Award for 2006

Author : John Fraser
Publisher : Gazette Printing Company
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:$B727422

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Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches by John Fraser Pdf

Author : John Ross Dix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Clergy
ISBN : UOM:39015026287360

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Pen Pictures of Popular English Preachers by John Ross Dix Pdf

Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Riots
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005412825

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Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Great Riots by J. T. Headley Pdf

Author : William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z163013003

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Picturesque America; Or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains ... by William Cullen Bryant Pdf

Author : Stanley Stewart Phipps
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013924504

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From Bull Pen to Bargaining Table by Stanley Stewart Phipps Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438117027

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Benjamin Franklin by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents important literary criticism of selected works by Benjamin Franklin.

Author : Eleanor A. Bulley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:590180199

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Great Britain for Little Britons by Eleanor A. Bulley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American essays
ISBN : UCAL:$B200180

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The Arena by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351549424

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Sea Power and the Control of Trade by Nicholas Tracy Pdf

The ability to influence world events through control of seaborne trade was profoundly affected by 19th-century developments in economic theory, commercial organization and naval technology, and by the growing power of the United States. In consequence the international law of belligerent rights at sea was repeatedly amended. Naval strategy in four wars reflected these changes in technology, power and law, and the ongoing process continues to influence international use of economic sanctions.