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Three Armies on the Somme
Author | : William Philpott |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307593726 |
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For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World War I to a victorious end. It was the most brutal fight in a war that scarred generations. Infantrymen lined up opposite massed artillery and machine guns. Chlorine gas filled the air. The dead and dying littered the shattered earth of no man’s land. Survivors were rattled with shell-shock. We remember the shedding of so much young blood and condemn the generals who sent their men to their deaths. Ever since, the Somme has been seen as a waste: even as the war continued, respected leaders—Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George among them—judged the battle a pointless one. While previous histories have documented the missteps of British command, no account has fully recognized the fact that allied generals were witnessing the spontaneous evolution of warfare even as they sent their troops “over the top.” With his keen insight and vast knowledge of military strategy, Philpott shows that twentieth-century war as we know it simply didn’t exist before the Battle of the Somme: new technologies like the armored tank made their battlefield debut, while developments in communications lagged behind commanders’ needs. Attrition emerged as the only means of defeating industrialized belligerents that were mobilizing all their resources for war. At the Somme, the allied armies acquired the necessary lessons of modern warfare, without which they could never have prevailed. An exciting, indispensable work of military history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme, and about the very nature of war.
With Three Armies on and Behind the Western Front
Author | : Arthur Stanley Riggs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044088017413 |
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Three Armies in Britain
Author | : Douglas Biggs |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789047410034 |
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This work reexamines the political and military aspects of the Revolution of 1399 that removed Richard II and placed Henry of Lancaster on the English throne. It argues that Henry of Lancaster was not the "all conquering" hero of 1399 but was rather the leader of a coalition of disaffected noblemen who had old scores to settle with Richard II. It also proposes that Richard II was not an incompetent king whose personality disorder(s) and/or tyrannical behavior brought about his fall. Rather, it argues that the king was in no worse a political position in 1399 than in 1387 or even 1381. As on the previous two great crises of the reign, the king forwent a military option of dealing with his opponents and decided to let the issues of 1399 play themselves out on the field of politics. Both in 1381 and 1387 this tactic had proven effective and there was nothing to suggest in 1399 that it would not be so again.
Bolt Action Armies of Great Britain
Author | : Warlord Games,Jake Thornton |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2013-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781782009597 |
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With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players can now build an army for Great Britain and the Commonwealth. From early campaigns in Europe to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East, British forces faced the Axis threat. The army lists presented here have all the information needed to field such elite units as the Paras, Commandos, Chindits and SAS alongside the steadfast 'Tommy'.
Waterloo
Author | : Bernard Cornwell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:895253349 |
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From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo. On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour by hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.
At the Front with Three Armies
Author | : Granville Roland Fortescue |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : WISC:89100033760 |
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A History of the British Army To the close of the seven years war
Author | : Sir John William Fortescue |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : PSU:000049261875 |
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Over There and Back in Three Uniforms
Author | : Joseph Shuter Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433081555538 |
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