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Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007383481
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : OCLC:1256743196
Contains primary source material.
Author : Edward Richard Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:962273735
Author : Peter Doyle,Chris Foster
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752497488
The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervour, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles in history. Yet often the picture is difficult to resolve for the reader. What was it like in the trenches? How did the soldier live, where did he sleep? What was it like to go over the top, and when he did, what did he carry with him? For many, the idea of trench life is hazy, and usually involves 'drowning in mud', in, as one writer put it, 'the pitiless misery' of Passchendaele. Recently, military historians have presented an alternative picture, a picture in which the hopelessness of the First World War is given new life and purpose. Remembering Tommy pays tribute to the real life British soldier of the Great War from the moment of joining up to their final homecoming. Using original artefacts in historic settings, the men and their words are brought to life. The uniforms they wore, the equipment they carried, the letters they wrote home, their personal possessions, mementos and photographs come together in a powerful tribute to the indomitable Tommy. Each one of these precious artefacts bears witness to the men who left them behind – allowing us to almost reach out and touch history.
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408844366
Shares excerpts from the personal diaries and photographs of British soldiers to depict the daily life of a Tommy in the trenches between 1914 and 1918.
Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445669885
A hundred years have now passed since Britain sent hundreds of thousands of men to fight and to die on the Western Front and elsewhere. This is the perfect introduction to the life and experiences of the ordinary British soldier.
Author : Fergus Mackain
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445658308
A unique visual perspective of life in the trenches on the Western Front from the forgotten soldier-artist and Somme veteran Private Fergus Mackain who served in France 1916 to 1917.
Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785007644
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Author : Julian Walker
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526765932
‘Napoo’, ‘compray’, ‘san fairy ann’, ‘toot sweet’ are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War as British troops struggled to communicate in French. Over four years of war they created an extraordinary slang which reflects the period and brings the conflict to mind whenever it is heard today. Julian Walker, in this original and meticulously researched book, explores the subject in fascinating detail. In the process he gives us an insight into the British soldiers’ experience in France during the war and the special language they invented in order to cope with their situation. He shows how French place-names were anglicized as were words for food and drink, and he looks at what these slang terms tell us about the soldiers’ perception of France, their relationship with the French and their ideas of home. He traces the spread of ‘Tommy French’ back to the Home Front, where it was popularized in songs and on postcards, and looks at the French reaction to the anglicization of their language.
Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784383305
The image of the innocent British soldier (or Tommy) setting off with a spring in his step in 1914 to fight the Great War would not last long.Indeed that initial euphoria would soon give way to a deep-seated bitterness as these young men endured the horror of the First World War.In a new edition of this extraordinary book, the uncensored letters, diaries, documents and many photographs tell the story of the British soldier (nicknamed Tommy) in their own words.While there are flashes of their wit and humour, the overwhelming feeling is that of a generation who felt let down by their superiors and left to perish.There are visceral, terrifying insights into life in the trenches and agonising descriptions of the squalor and privations of war.This haunting account also looks at the aggressive drive to recruit more soldiers through the Pals Battalion or Chums Battalion. Friends from the same town or village; professional bodies, or work colleagues among others were encouraged to enlist en masse. They would fight together alongside their friends or colleagues. Many of them would sadly die together and leave communities wild with grief for a lost generation, robbed of a future having barely had a past.With a concise analysis of the British Army in the First World War, we are reminded of the terror of war, the fury, the fear and the frustration of what has been described by some as a war typified by the devastating assessment: lions led by donkeys.
Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1841762733
This book is available in North America ONLY. If you live elsewhere in the world and would like to read this book, please see Warrior 16- British Tommy. This book is identical in content and price - only the cover differs. World War 1 was a watershed in British military and social history, and even now the repercussions can still be felt. No town or village in the British Isles escaped their casualties, and the creative genius of a generation was wiped out, at an incalculable loss to society. This book looks in detail at how the British soldier lived, fought and died during the traumatic war years. Enlistment, training and all aspects of life on active service are carefully examined, including discipline, relaxation and even the type and quality of food that soldiers ate. The analysis of the British infantryman's experience is greatly aided by the memories of old soldiers, which both support the author's statements and themselves provide an interesting and often vivid account of life on the Western Front.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007374052
Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.
Author : Peter Doyle,Chris Foster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747814771
On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, fascinating stories that bring the ordinary Tommy's experiences back to life with poignant immediacy. With striking original photography by Chris Foster and expert text from noted historian Peter Doyle, it looks in detail at fifty objects that Tommy would have had in his kit and which would have accompanied, equipped and comforted him during his wartime ordeals: official uniform, training manual, cigarettes, good-luck charms, sweethearts' letters, foreign phrasebook and myriad others. Together, these artefacts give us a serious and informative, yet touching and even occasionally amusing, picture of the ordinary soldier's experience of the First World War.
Author : A J Denny
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781787193178
Tommy's story begins in an impoverished Salford of a bygone time. It follows Tommy through his childhood and youth. This leads into the main part of the story about Tommy's experiences as a British soldier seeing combat in the Libyan Desert with the British 7th Armoured Division, which leads to capture and life as a prisoner of war and eventual escape and spectacular journey to reach freedom. The story has twists and turns that will keep the reader not knowing how it will finish until the end. It contains shocking first-hand accounts of war and the harshness of living in a war environment, but also moments of hope and endeavour, and the laughter of life and romance in the most bizarre of situations. The story travels between continents and countries, highlighting the importance of how a grasp of different languages can remove cultural barriers and, in Tommy's story, probably saved his life.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
