The Kitchener Armies

Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473815797

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Kitchener's Army by Peter Simkins Pdf

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 : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719026385

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Kitchener's Army by Peter Simkins Pdf

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : NYPL:33433082479241

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Kitchener's Mob by James Norman Hall Pdf

Author : Victor Wallace Germains
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051391467

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The Kitchener Armies by Victor Wallace Germains Pdf

Bogen giver et indblik i "The Kitchener Armies", hvordan de blev oprettet og hvilken rolle de spillede under 1. Verdenskrig, her bl.a. om den 23. engelske infanteridivision.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015982174

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Kitchener's Mob by James Norman Hall Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1871876052

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Kitchener's Army by Ray Westlake Pdf

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11071409

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Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces by Edgar Wallace Pdf

Author : A. J. Smithers
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032427281

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The Fighting Nation by A. J. Smithers Pdf

Tells the story of Kitchener who dutifully accepted the War Ministry for a period of three years and made the unsurprising discovery that he had inherited neither an army nor the means of creating one. Yet having called for 100,000 volunteers, he got by the time of his death over 3,000,000.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015986463

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Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0656125454

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Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces, the Full Story of a Great Achievement (Classic Reprint) by Edgar Wallace Pdf

Excerpt from Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces, the Full Story of a Great Achievement At the time when the British Army was mobilising in England, and when Russia had no more than men on the scene of action, Germany had concentrated forty four Army Corps, divided into nine Armies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : E.W. Parker
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783378500

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Into Battle by E.W. Parker Pdf

Written well over ninety years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital—an officer with the Military Cross—recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918.In no way a formal record of the great and terrible events it describes, this is a purely personal, almost private, account. It is a plain, unvarnished tale—and even more effective for that—of heroism, and the horror peculiar to trench warfare of the First World War.Interspersed with moments of pity, humor and a deep response to natural beauty and peace out of the firing line, it is a record, which in its details, direct simplicity and manner of telling, comes nearer to the truth than many more ambitious accounts.

Author : Hall James Norman
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1313318248

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Kitchener's Mob; The Adventures of an American in the British Army by Hall James Norman Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1451014686

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Kitchener's Mob by James Norman Hall Pdf

Excerpt from Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army This brief narrative is by no means a com plete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for England, the purpose of the writer will have been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henry D. Davray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
ISBN : WISC:89099962722

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Lord Kitchener by Henry D. Davray Pdf

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530076293

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Kitchener's Mob by James Norman Hall Pdf

This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for England, the purpose of the writer will have been accomplished.