The Oxfordshire Hussars in the Great War (1914-1918)
Author | : Adrian Wentworth Keith-Falconer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adrian Wentworth Keith-Falconer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Cotter |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750957646 |
The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Oxfordshire offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadowof the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it describes local reaction to the outbreak of war; charts the experience of individuals who enlisted; the changing face of industry; the work of the many hospitals in the area; the effect of the conflict on local children; the women who defied convention to play a vital role on the home front; and concludes with a chapter dedicated to how the city and its people coped with the transition to life in peacetime once more. The Great War story of Oxfordshire is told through the voices of those who were there and is vividly illustrated through evocative images from the archives of Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.
Author | : Peter Hart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190873000 |
Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves, and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice. After four years of bloodshed, Germany was nearly bankrupt and there was a growing rift between the military High Command and political leadership. But it also remained a determined combatant, and France and Great Britain had equally been stretched to their limits; Russia had abandoned the conflict in the late winter of 1918. However complex the causes of Germany's ultimate defeat, Allied success on the Western Front, as Hart reveals, tipped the scales-the triumphs at the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Sambre, the Selle, and the Meuse-Argonne, where American forces made arguably their greatest contribution. The offensives cracked the Hindenburg Line and wore down the German resistance, precipitating collapse. Final victory came at great human cost and involved the combined efforts of millions of men. Using the testimony of a range of participants, from the Doughboys, Tommies, German infantrymen, and French poilus who did the fighting, to those in command during those last days and weeks, Hart brings intimacy and sweep to the events that led to November 11, 1918.
Author | : W. Mitchinson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137451610 |
William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force was staffed and commanded, its relationship with the Regular Army and the War Office, and how most of its 1st Line divisions managed to retain and promote their local identities.
Author | : Fred R. van Hartesveldt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313068437 |
In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I. Unique to this bibliography is the comprehensive coverage of sources, resulting in a more complete picture of the circumstances of activities of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Sources include coverage of the BEF's military role, as well as background information about domestic military considerations and Allied and enemy efforts. This volume will support researchers and students in their efforts to find out what the Expeditionary Force's contributions were in World War I, and for expanding their knowledge of the Great War and British military history. In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I. Unique to this bibliography is the comprehensive coverage of sources, and it results in a more complete picture of the circumstances of activities of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Sources include coverage of the BEF's military role, as well as background information about domestic military considerations and Allied and enemy efforts. This volume will support researchers and students in their efforts to find out what the Expeditionary Force's contributions were in World War I, and for expanding their knowledge of the Great War and British military history. The volume includes four chapters of historiographical essays discussings the interpretations and controversies that surround the performance and leadership of the BEF in 1914-1915. The essays direct readers to the major sources that support various ideas and indicate gaps in the historiography of the subject. Following the historiographical essays is an annotated bibliography of more than 1,000 sources that are relevant to the study of the BEF.
Author | : Walter Temple Willcox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Great Britain. Army |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2700 |
Release | : 1924-10 |
Genre | : Retired military personnel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : HMSO |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781501874 |
Final list of battle honours awarded to each regiment as published under Army Order 55 of February 1925. This order directed that "no further submissions concerning the Great War battle honours will be made." Those to be borne on the Colours or Appointments are shown in bold print.
Author | : Henry Mortimer Durand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |