British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One
Author | : John Laffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Laffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Laffin |
Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Command of troops |
ISBN | : 9780750934350 |
An analysis of the British generals' leadership during World War I. For too long, John Laffin maintains, the military reputation of the generals has not been examined critically enough, and he asks how those responsible for such catastrophic defeats were able to retain their commands.
Author | : Gordon Corrigan |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780225547 |
The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.
Author | : J. P. Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521898021 |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : John Terraine |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445671468 |
An expert narrative of 1918, when the breakthrough was finally made, and everything it took to achieve victory.
Author | : Michael S. NEIBERG |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674041399 |
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2017-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0850525888 |
Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks thoroughly into the Commonwealth soldiers contribution and makes an unparalleled attempt to examine together in one volume specialist facets of the battle, the weather, field survey and cartography, discipline and morale, and the cultural and social legacy of the battle, in art, literature and commemoration. Each one of its thirty chapters presents a thought-provoking angle on the subject. They add up to an unique analysis of the battle from Commonwealth, American, German, French, Belgian and United Kingdom historians. This book will undoubtedly become a valued work of reference for all those with an interest in World War One.
Author | : Toby Thacker |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441134379 |
The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these collective British memories were influenced by the experiences and the work of writers, painters and musicians. This book revisits the British experience of the War through the eyes and ears of a diverse group of carefully selected novelists, poets, composers and painters. It examines how they reacted to and portrayed their experiences in the trenches on the Western Front, in distant theatres of war and on the home front, in words, pictures and music that would have a profound influence on subsequent British perceptions of the war. Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Christopher Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Elgar and T. E. Lawrence are amongst the figures discussed in this original exploration of the First World War and British collective memory. The book includes illustrations, maps and a companion website to aid further study and research.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Sudduth |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781570035906 |
Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2018-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473891639 |
How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking collection of original essays on the outcome of the war and its aftermath is of such value.It completes the trilogy of ground-breaking volumes conceived and edited by Peter Liddle which presents the latest scholarly thinking about the Great War from an international perspective. The first two volumes Britain Goes to War and Britain and the Widening War made this stimulating new writing accessible to a broad readership and this final volume has the same aim.A group of over twenty expert contributors reconsider the military reasons for the outcome of the fighting and look at the consequences for the principal nations involved. They explore the way the war and the peace settlement shaped the twentieth century and had an enduring impact within Europe and beyond.