Western Front Diaries

Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : Kangaroo Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000126334980

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Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King Pdf

Hidden under the shadow of Gallipoli for decades, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. Five times greater than Gallipoli, the Western Front had: five times more soldiers (250 000 rather than 50 000), more than five times the amount of men killed (46 000 compared to 8709), more than five times as many battles, with troops serving there for four times longer, and five times the sum of Victoria Crosses earned (a total of 53). Thankfully, the diggers serving in this first Australian Army Corps and under an Australian commander for the first time, actually helped win the war. Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle. With its gallery of unpublished photographs, Western Front Diaries tells without embellishment the stories of the Australian soldiers and finally puts the Western Front on the map.

Author : Peter Burness
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1742235867

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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness Pdf

Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout the war and were the basis of his monumental twelve-volume official war history. While his diaries relating to the Gallipoli campaign have been published in four editions, Bean's Western Front diaries are published here for the first time, edited by esteemed historian Peter Burness, and accompanied by over 500 incredible photographs, sketches and maps.

Author : Ernest Pollard,Hazel Strouts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ornithologists
ISBN : 0953221393

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Wings Over the Western Front by Ernest Pollard,Hazel Strouts Pdf

Author : Julian Grenfell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hertfordshire (England)
ISBN : IND:30000122969706

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Julian Grenfell, Soldier & Poet by Julian Grenfell Pdf

Julian Henry Francis Grenfell, son of William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945) and Ethel Anne Priscilla Fane (1867-1952), was born 30 March 1888 in London, England. His father was the first Baron Desborough. Julian died 26 May 1915 in France.

Author : Ruth Cowen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857202246

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A Nurse at the Front by Ruth Cowen Pdf

This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly, Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery and dedication won her the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the 'war to end wars', including the first use of poison gas and the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres, but she also records what life was like for nurses and how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy, and even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction.

Author : Beth Seidel Levine
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439439825

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When Christmas Comes Again by Beth Seidel Levine Pdf

Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547358718

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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Lionel Sotheby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041028872

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Lionel Sotheby's Great War by Lionel Sotheby Pdf

Of war, yet overall he remained remarkably cheerful and resolute - and certain of his own impending death. A great many soldiers in 1915 did not survive long enough to record their experiences. It was nasty, close-range fighting, with fearsome instruments of death. Nobody yet knew how to fight the first mechanized global war. Lionel Sotheby, sensitive and enthusiastic, tried hard in his letters to give his family the look and feel of the war. In so doing, this young man.

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408844366

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Tommy's War by Richard van Emden Pdf

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 : Gary Sheffield,John Bourne
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474603355

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Douglas Haig by Gary Sheffield,John Bourne Pdf

There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and at Passchendaele. On the other hand, there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918. Haig's diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C's view of Asquith and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. The diaries show him intriguing with the King vs. Lloyd George. Additional are his day-by-day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.

Author : Vernon E. Kniptash
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806185835

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On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division by Vernon E. Kniptash Pdf

An ordinary soldier’s day-by-day account of the Great War Vernon E. Kniptash, an Indiana national guardsman who served in the Rainbow Division during World War I, observed firsthand some of the Great War’s fiercest fighting. As a radio operator with the Headquarters Company of the 150th Field Artillery, he was in constant contact with French and British forces as well as with American troops, and thus gained a broad perspective on the hostilities. Editor E. Bruce Geelhoed introduces and annotates Kniptash’s war diaries, published here for the first time. With clarity and compelling detail, Kniptash describes the experiences of an ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat that followed, as well as the drudgery of daily routine. He renders unforgettable profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders, and manages despite the strains of warfare to leaven his writing with humor. Readers will share Kniptash’s ordeals as he participates in the furious effort to stem a major German offensive, followed by six months of violent combat and the massive Allied counteroffensive that ended the war. Because Kniptash was called to remain with the Army of Occupation in Germany after his unit was shipped home, his diaries cover the full extent of American participation in the war.

Author : Mark Humphries,John Maker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554583959

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Germany’s Western Front: 1914 by Mark Humphries,John Maker Pdf

This multi-volume series in six parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germany’s experience on the Western front. Recorded in the words of its official historians, this account is vital to the study of the war and official memory in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Although exciting new sources have been uncovered in former Soviet archives, this work remains the basis of future scholarship. It is essential reading for any scholar, graduate student, or enthusiast of the Great War. This volume, the second to be published, covers the outbreak of war in July–August 1914, the German invasion of Belgium, the Battles of the Frontiers, and the pursuit to the Marne in early September 1914. The first month of war was a critical period for the German army and, as the official history makes clear, the German war plan was a gamble that seemed to present the only solution to the riddle of the two-front war. But as the Moltke-Schlieffen Plan was gradually jettisoned through a combination of intentional command decisions and confused communications, Germany’s hopes for a quick and victorious campaign evaporated.

Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922070913

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Gallipoli Diaries by Jonathan King Pdf

Gallipoli, for the average australian, is the most famous battle that our volunteer soldiers ever fought, because it was our first entry as a nation into the war, and our people were keen to prove themselves. It would be, however, a long time before the families back home, and the nation as a whole, heard of the terrible conditions on the peninsula and the waste of life that took place there. Although Gallipoli was a crushing defeat, it was, and still is, celebrated as a victory. In this updated commemorative edition, published 100 years after the 25 April 1915 landing, the Gallipoli story is told day by day, using the words of the diggers, drivers, soldiers, and war correspondents at the front-line. War historian Jonathan King has gathered together an unequalled series of extracts from letters and diaries, written by hundreds of Anzacs at Gallipoli, accounting for every one of the 240 days of the eight-month campaign — and even identifying the actual days of the week. Reading the men’s own words, including misspellings and mistakes, we share in the soldiers’ experiences. These Australians, of exceptional calibre and good cheer, each wrote for different reasons, although many made light of their hardships. It is all here — the fear, the frustration, and the boredom, as they scrounged for bully beef; went mad from the flies, the lice, and the stench of the unburied dead; swapped cigarettes with enemy Turks; dodged shrapnel while swimming at the beach; celebrated birthdays; sheltered from rain and shivered in snow; and waited for action while praying for deliverance. Although generals, historians, and war scholars have had their stories told many times, it is only now, when we read the private words of the men at the front-line, that we can glimpse what Gallipoli was really like.

Author : Jack Giffard
Publisher : Radcliffe Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058240634

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Guns, Kites and Horses by Jack Giffard Pdf

This book provides sharp insight into actual life and suffering on the Western Front.

Author : Peter Pedersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118238325

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ANZACS on the Western Front by Peter Pedersen Pdf

A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and extensive travel information, this is the most comprehensive guide to the battlefields of the Western Front on the market. Every chapter covers not just the battles, but the often larger-than-life personalities who took part in them. Following a chronological order from 1916 through 1918, the book leads readers through every major engagement the Australian and New Zealanders fought in and includes tactical considerations and extracts from the personal diaries of soldiers. This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to explore the battlefields of the Western Front, either in-person or from the comfort of home.