The History of the 51st (Highland) Division, 1914-1918

The History of the 51st (Highland) Division, 1914-1918
Author: Frederick William Bewsher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1921
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

If it were possible for the General who for three years commanded all the British Divisions in France, and was served with equal gallantry, devotion, and success by each, to admit a predilection for any of them, my affection would naturally turn to the Division that drew so many of its recruits from the same part of Scotland where my boyhood was spent and my own people lived. Those who read the pages of this book will find therein a tale of patient endeavour and glorious achievement of which I claim a good right to be as proud as any of my fellow-countrymen. The 51st Division does not need to boast of its prowess or its record. It can point to the story of its deeds, plainly and simply told, and leave the world to judge.

A Medico's Luck in the War

A Medico's Luck in the War
Author: Colonel David Rorie
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781513899

This memoir is subtitled 'Reminiscences of RAMC Work With The Highland Division.' The author was OC 1/2nd Highland Field Ambulance and later ADMS (Assistant Director of Medical Services) 51st Highland Division. The holder of that appointment was the senior medical officer in a division and adviser to the GOC. This book provides a valuable insight into the workings of the medical units in a division and it begins with an explanation of what a Field Ambulance is (there were three in a division and it is not a vehicle) and how casualties were evacuated from the front line back along a chain to the UK (if necessary). It explains what the various stages in the chain were and what their role was in the scheme of things. The photos are particularly interesting since some of the dressing stations are today military cemeteries. The collecting post at Auchonvillers is still recognisable. Rorie does not dwell on the blood and gore of which he would have seen plenty but he does paint a most interesting, informative and often amusing picture of life at the front for a medical officer. Well worth reading.

Friendly Russia

Friendly Russia
Author: Denis Norman Garstin
Publisher: London : T. F. Unwin
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1915
Genre: Russia
ISBN:

Canterbury's Boys

Canterbury's Boys
Author: Lesley Muir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2002
Genre: Canterbury (N.S.W.)
ISBN: 9780957939127

The Purpose of the First World War

The Purpose of the First World War
Author: Holger Afflerbach
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110435993

Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.