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 Europe's Last Summer. Who Started the Great War in 1914? 
 Author: Fromkin David Europe's Last Summer. Who Started the Great War in 1914? New York: Random House, Alfred A Knopf Division 2004 Pages: 350 Format: pdf Size: 106 mb Language: English Author David Fromkin provides an intelligently written and deeply researched of the political situation and diplomatic relations that unfolded in Europe in the summer of 1914. There are many key and novel insights in Fromkin’s book. One is the conclusion that Germany sought war with Russia out of fear that Russia’s growing economic and military power coupled with its vast population would allow it to surpass Germany in a short period of time. Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
 Author: Geoffrey Jukes The First World War: The War to End All Wars Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military ISBN: 1782002804 2013 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 364 Size: 18 Mb Language: English Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with a foreword by Professor Hew Strachan, covers the fighting on all fronts, from Flanders to Tannenberg and from Italy to Palestine. A series of moving extracts from personal letters, diaries and journals bring to life the experiences of soldiers and civilians caught up in the war.
The Shadow war - 3rd Reich Series
 The Shadow war - 3rd Reich Series Time-Life Books Author:Time-Life Books 1991 Language:English Format:pdf Size:37,5 Mb Although the history of German military spying extends back before the time of Frederick the Great in the eighteenth century, the agency Canaris was taking over was only fifteen years old. Its roots lay in the turbulent autumn days of 1918 when the provisional Reichswehr, the Weimar's defense force, and the Freikorps, volunteer paramilitary units that sprang up following Germany's defeat in World War I, responded to the disorder by purging their ranks of Communist spies and left-wing revolutionaries...
From Imperial Splendour to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War
 Author: Nicolas Wolz From Imperial Splendour to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War Seaforth Publishing ISBN: 1848322283 2015 Format: EPUB + PDF (conv) Size: 4,8 МБ + 11,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 320
The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War
 Author: Daniel George Ridley-Kitts The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War The History Press 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 288 Size: 4 Mb Language: English
Weapons and Technology of World War I
 Author: Paul Dowswell Weapons and Technology of World War I (20th Century Perspectives) Heinemann Library 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 85.2 MB This book examines the changes in weapons and tactics that impacted the way war was waged during World War I.
Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II
 Author: Major Charles D. Melson Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 1482039311 2013 Format: PDF Size: 5,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 36 Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II is a narrative of the activities of the defense battalions during the Pacific War. Official records and appropriate historical works were used in compiling this chronicle, which is published for the information of those interested in the history of the USMC. This book is one in a series devoted to U.S. Marines in the World War II.
Camouflage: The History of Concealment & Deception in War
 Author: Guy Hartcup Camouflage: The History of Concealment & Deception in War Charles Scribner's Sons 1980 Format: PDF Pages: 166 Language: English Size: 18.3 MB While concealment has been a vital requirement for hunting, fighting and protection since earliest days, the use of camouflage as deception purposes came of age in the First World War. The growing use of aircraft was a factor no doubt as the author of this fascinating study concludes. The inventiveness and improvisation required suited the British temperament well. Given that those individuals who particularly excel at creativity are often artists, scientist and engineers with a fine disregard for orthodox military practice there are plenty of examples of clashes with more conventional military thinkers and bureaucracy.
The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932
 Author: Patrick O. Cohrs The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932 The Cambridge University Press 2006 ISBN: 0521853532 Format: PDF Size: 5,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 708 This is a highly original and revisionist analysis of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler. Patrick Cohrs argues that this order was not founded at Versailles but rather through the first 'real' peace settlements after World War I - the London reparations settlement of 1924 and the Locarno security pact of 1925. Crucially, both fostered Germany's integration into a fledgling transatlantic peace system, thus laying the only realistic foundations for European stability. What proved decisive was that key decision-makers drew lessons from the 'Great War' and Versailles' shortcomings. Yet Cohrs also re-appraises why they could not sustain the new order, master its gravest crisis - the Great Depression - and prevent Nazism's onslaught. Despite this ultimate failure, he concludes that the 'unfinished peace' of the 1920s prefigured the terms on which a more durable peace could be founded after 1945.
Hostile Skies - A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I
 Author: James J. Hudson Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I Syracuse University Press 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 380 Language: English Size: 48 MB The single best treatment of the American Air Service in World War I. From April to November 1918, the American Air Service grew from a poorly equipped, unorganized branch of the U.S. Expeditionary Forces to a fighting unit equal to its opponent in every way. Hostile Skies details the actual battle experiences of the men and boys who made up the service squadrons at the front.
The "Baby Killers": German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War
 The "Baby Killers": German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War Author: Thomas Fegan Pen & Sword Military 2013 ISBN: 978-1781592038 Pages: 191 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 13 MB Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers’ triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaiser’s Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk from sudden death and destruction.In the first section of The ‘Baby Killers’ Thomas Fegan charts the precise chronology of the air raids on Britain in this most thorough and fascinating work. From the start-point of the doom-laden prophecies of HG Wells and others, he describes the development of the German threat and the desperate search for answers to it. He analyses public reaction and assesses the effectiveness of the campaign as it progressed from airships to Gotha heavy bombers and, later, ‘Giants’.The second part of this superbly researched book features a gazetteer to the places bombed. The extent of the list, which includes Edinburgh, Hull and Greater Manchester, will almost certainly surprise most readers. Helpfully there are also comprehensive lists of memorials and relevant museums. The ‘Baby Killers’ provides a chilling insight into an aspect of The Great War which is all too often overlooked. Yet, at the time, these raids, while modest compared with those of the Second World War Blitz, shook national morale and instilled great fear and outrage. This is an important and highly readable work.
Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I
 Author: John S. Haller Jr. Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I outhern Illinois University Press 2011 Pages: 288 Format:pdf Language : English Size: 10mb In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries figure prominently in this history of the military ambulance, which focuses mainly on British and American technological advancements. Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Philippines Insurrection, then climaxes with the trench warfare that defined World War I. The operative word is "challenges" of medical care and evacuation because while some things learned in a conflict are carried into the next, too often, the spasms of war force its participants to repeat the errors of the past before acquiring much needed insight. More than a history of medical evacuation systems and vehicles, this exhaustively researched and richly illustrated volume tells a fascinating story, giving readers a unique perspective of the changing nature of warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
German Assault Troops of the First World War: Stosstrupptaktik - The First Stormtroopers
 Author: Stephen Bull German Assault Troops of the First World War: Stosstrupptaktik - The First Stormtroopers The History Press 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 3 Mb To many it would later seem as if the rule book of war had been torn up and thrown away. World War I is usually characterized as a static war of attrition, but by its end a new doctrine of fire and movement emerged, with the squad as the key tactical unit, marking a fundamental shift in methods of warfare. As late as March 1918, assault detachments used these tactics to destroy the British 5th Army and take 50,000 prisoners. Stephen Bull traces the development of German storm tactics in the context of trench warfare waged with new technology: vastly improved machine-guns, super-heavy artillery, flamethrowers, and gas. The legend of German stormtroops has proved powerful and enduring. They were central to Blitzkrieg, and Hitler styled them as elite soldiers—living examples of Nietzschean supermen. As demonstrated here, these tactics did not appear out of nowhere.
The Defence of the Dardanelles - From Bombards to Battleships
 Author: Michael Forrest The Defence of the Dardanelles - From Bombards to Battleships Pen & Sword 2013 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 204 Language: English Size: 6.8 MB
For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914--1917
 Author: E. W. Hermon For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914--1917 Preface Publishing ISBN: 1848090390 2009 Format: EPUB Size: 7,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 384 Lt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his King and country. He was shot through the heart, one bullet slicing through the papers in his top pocket, including the four-leaf clover his wife had given him for good luck. His final words to his Adjutant were 'Go on!' before he sank to his knees and died almost instantaneously. He was carried from the battlefield by his faithful soldier servant, Buxton, and now lies buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Roclincourt, three miles from Arras. This could have been the end of the story but he left a testament of his life and ideals in a unique and hitherto unknown and unpublished collection of long and detailed letters he wrote to his darling wife and his children, 'the Chugs'. Now, nearly a century after his death, he speaks to us of a past, less cynical life, where selflessness, honour, duty and courage were admired above all else. His own courage was officially recognised as he was mentioned in despatches three times and posthumously awarded the D.S.O. The letters have been transcribed and edited by Hermon's granddaughter Anne Nason with the guidance and historical advice of James Holland, the distinguished historian and writer. Peter Caddick-Adams, who works alongside Richard Holmes at Cranfield University, believes the letters to be unique in their candour and context since Hermon was Battalion Commander and thus his letters were not censored.
Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War
 Author: Edward J. Erickson Ordered to Die A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War Greenwood Press ISBN: 0313315167 2000 Format: PDF Size: 15,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 304
British Intelligence in the Second World War vol.1
 Author: F. H. Hinsley British Intelligence in the Second World War vol.1 Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 622 Language: English Size: 91.8 MB British Intelligence in the Second World War provides the only reliable account yet published of the key role played by British Intelligence in Allied strategy and operations in the Second World War. No such account could have been written without the unrestricted access that was afforded to Professor Hinsley and his colleagues to the full range of British government intelligence records and to political and military archives of the war and the interwar years. This volume, an abridgement of Professor Hinsley's widely acclaimed five-volume history of British Intelligence, covers in fascinating detail the use of intelligence in all aspects of the war in Europe.
The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, 3rd Edition
 Author: Martin Gilbert The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, 3rd Edition Routledge 2008 ISBN: 0415460387 Format: EPUB Size: 52,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed, the atlas covers: the early months of the war: from the fall of Belgium to the fierce fighting at Ypres and Tannenberg: the developing war in Europe: from Gallipoli to the horrors of the Somme and Verdun life at the front: from living underground, the trench system and the mud of Passchendaele to the war graves technology and the new horrors: from phosgene gas attacks to submarines, tanks and mines the home fronts: from German food riots to the air defence of Britain, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Austria-Hungary the aftermath: from war debts and war deaths to the new map of Europe. This third edition contains an entirely new section depicting the visual remembrance of the war; a fascinating visitors' guide to the memorials that commemorate the tragedy of the Somme.
Rise Of The Tank: Armoured Vehicles And Their Use In The First World War
 Author: Michael Foley Rise Of The Tank: Armoured Vehicles And Their Use In The First World War Pen and Sword ISBN: 1783463937 2014 Format: EPUB + PDF (conv) Size: 4,1 МБ + 22,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 256 Rise of the Tank will be concentrated on the period of the development of the tank and its use in the First World War. This will appeal to those interested in new developments in war and those interested in the First World War generally. The book will be especially relevant due to the forthcoming centenary of the beginning of the war and for this reason it will be easy to promote the book as there will be a lot of media interest. Using the resources of the Imperial War Museum, The National Archives and the Tank Museum, Rise of the Tank will have lots of information available on the development and use of the early tanks as well as personal reminiscences of those who fought in them. The author, Michael Foley, has also collected a great deal of material from the period such as the First World War field service pocket book of a 2nd lieutenant of the 10th Tank Battalion and copies of various magazines of the period. He will have also be accessing First World War newspapers to find original and rare archive sources.
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