With the French in France and Salonika

With the French in France and Salonika
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1916
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

This book was written during the last three months of 1915, and the first month of 1916 in the form of letters from France, Greece, Serbia, and England. The author visited the French Front and was also on the French-British front in the Balkans.

With the French in France and Salonika

With the French in France and Salonika
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1916
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

This book was written during the last three months of 1915, and the first month of 1916 in the form of letters from France, Greece, Serbia, and England. The author visited the French Front and was also on the French-British front in the Balkans.

With the French in France and Salonika

With the French in France and Salonika
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517217433

With The French in France and Salonika

With the French in France Salonika (Classic Reprint)

With the French in France Salonika (Classic Reprint)
Author: Richard Harding Davis
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781528574174

Excerpt from With the French in France Salonika This book was written during the three last months of 1915 and the first month of this year in the form' of letters from France, Greece, Serbia, and England. The writer visited ten of the twelve sectors of the French front, seeing most of them from the first trench, and was also on the french-british front in the Balkans. Outside of Paris the French cities visited were Verdun, Amiens, St. Die, Arras, Chalons, Nancy, and Rheims. What he saw served to strengthen his admir ation for the French army and, as individuals and as a nation, for the French people, and to increase his confidence in the ultimate success of their arms. 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.

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.

The French Army and the First World War

The French Army and the First World War
Author: Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316060683

This is a comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army's achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the enemy forces it faced. Drawing from new archival sources, she reveals the challenges of dealing with and replenishing a mass conscript army in the face of slaughter on an unprecedented scale, and shows how, through trials and defeats, French generals and their troops learned to adapt and develop techniques which eventually led to victory. In a unique account of the largest Allied army on the Western Front, she revises our understanding not only of wartime strategy and combat, but also of other crucial aspects of France's war, from mutinies and mail censorship to medical services, railways and weapons development.

With the French in France and Salonika

With the French in France and Salonika
Author: Richard Harding 1864-1916 Davis
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781355595366

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The Gardeners of Salonika

The Gardeners of Salonika
Author: Alan Palmer
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571280935

'The Gardeners of Salonika' as Clemenceau contemptuously labelled them, could well be called the forgotten army of the First World War. Yet the Macedonian Campaign was, in Lord Hankey's words, 'the most controversial of all the so-called sideshows.' In his definitive The First World War (1999) Sir John Keegan hailed Alan Palmer for having written 'the best study of the Macedonian Front in English.' Palmer tells the story of this extraordinary polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918. He also illuminates the political and strategic background: the ceaseless argument in London and Paris over the army's future and the maze of Greek politics within which it and its commanders were enclosed. 'A masterly and colourful account of this, the most controversial and neglected sideshow of them all.' Guardian 'Not only a valuable contribution to history, but also an enthralling book' Sunday Times

The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940

The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940
Author: William Fortescue
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351540009

An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871* Franco-German relations* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate* the character of the French Right and of French fascism.