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 The Battle of Bellewaarde: June 1915 
 Author: Carole McEntee-Taylor The Battle of Bellewaarde: June 1915 Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 328 Size: 46 Mb Language: English It was 2am on the 16th June 1915 and dawn was slowly breaking over Bellewaarde. It was exceptionally quiet, the troops of 3rd Division were situated on the western edge of Railway Wood and shrouded in a thick mist which reduced visibility and gave the illusion of safety. Across the few yards of no man’s land, the German troops of Reserve Infantry Regiments (RIR) 248 and 246, and Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 132 were also blanketed in the thick damp mist.
British Battalions on the Western Front
 Author: Ray Westlake British Battalions on the Western Front Pen and Sword 2000 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 4 Mb Language: English Ray Westlake's latest work is a valuable day-to-day guide to the postings and actions of nearly 300 British battalions during this period of numerous experimental re-organizations of regular and volunteer units in preparation for massive later offensives in World War I.
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South
 Author: Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland The Retreat from Mons 1914: South Pen and Sword Military Battle Lines 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 152 Size: 36 Mb Language: English The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword’s Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the conflict – all the important battle sites of the second stage of the retreat are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened and why and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see.
The Underwater War: Submarines 1914-1918
 Author: Edwyn Gray The Underwater War: Submarines 1914-1918 Charles Scribner's Sons 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 276 Language: English Size: 36.6 MB When, in 1620, the Dutchman Cornelis Drebbel sailed up the Thames in the world's first submarine and 'calmly dived under the water while he kept the King and several thousand Londoners in the greatest suspense', no one in the watching crowd could have foreseen where his invention would lead. Today, the nuclear-powered missile-submarine stands supreme as the world's most powerful warship. Able to circumnavigate the globe without surfacing, it can sail beneath the polar ice-caps, and travel 120,000 miles without refueling. And, at the touch of a button, its megaton destructive power can obliterate half a continent.
World War I: War in the Trenches (World Wars)
 Author: Ole Steen Hansen World War I: War in the Trenches (World Wars) Raintree Steck-Vaughn 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 13.3 MB This book addresses key questions such as: how did the Allies and Germany become so literally entrenched and unable to make any significant progress; What strategic philosophies caused generals on all sides to accept such a horrendous loss of life; and, What was life like for ordinary soldiers fighting and living in the trenches. It includes an analysis of the key battles of Verdun, the Somme and the third battle of Ypres - otherwise known as Passchendaele, or the 'battle of the mud'.
Crossed Currents: Navy Women From WW I to Tailhook
 Author: Jean Ebbert Crossed Currents: Navy Women From WW I to Tailhook Brassey's 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 388 Language: English Size: 49 MB This study is a history of US Navy women from World War I to the present day. It is a comprehensive chronicle that suggests the infamous Tailhook scandal was to be expected. This new edition includes a post-Tailhook chapter that brings this story right up to date, and covers other recent developments in Navy women's ongoing struggle for acceptance.
The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making
 Author: Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107042453 2014 Format: PDF Size: 15,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 320 The First World War had profound consequences both for the evolution of the international system and for domestic political systems. How and why did the war start? Offering a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together a distinguished group of diplomatic historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the war. Organized around several theoretically based questions, it shows how power, alliances, historical rivalries, militarism, nationalism, public opinion, internal politics, and powerful personalities shaped decision-making in each of the major countries in the lead up to war. The emphasis on the interplay of theory and history is a significant contribution to the dialogue between historians and political scientists, and will contribute to a better understanding of the war in both disciplines.
Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne
 Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne Author: Ian Senior Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military ISBN: 978 1472803351 2014 Language: English Pages: 456 Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 5,6 MB For a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience in battle, despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force comprised just four divisions, while the French and Germans fielded 60 each. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, Invasion 1914 examines how the German invasion of France and Belgium came agonizingly close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the end of the year. Ian Senior reveals how the initial German strategy revolved around, and in part depended on, rapid victory over the French, and how the failure to achieve this resulted in the surprisingly fluid battles of the early days of the war deteriorating into the trench-based warfare which was to see the war drag on for another four years of unprecedented slaughter. Weaving together strategic analysis, diary entries, eyewitness accounts and interview transcripts from soldiers on the ground with consummate skill, this narrative is a timely investigation into the dramatic early months of the war, as the fate of Europe hung in the balance.
Gully Ravine: Gallipoli (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Stephen Chambers Gully Ravine: Gallipoli Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2003 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 33 Mb Language: English This book concentrates on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield, Gallipoli. "...Death was at work there,...Death lived there,...Death wandered up and down there and fed on Life." (John Masefield). Here trench fighting raged throughout the campaign, culminating in the Battle of Gully Ravine between 28 June and 5 July 1915. This attack was a successful piece of planning and execution, enabling the British to capture five lines of Turkish trenches, seriously threatening the Turkish hold on the southern tip of the peninsula.
Serre (Battleground Europe)
Author: Nigel Cave
Serre (Battleground Europe)
Pen and Sword Military
2003
Format: EPUB
Pages: 144
Size: 33 Mb
Language: English
The tiny French hamlet of Serre, the norther nmost part of the front for the July 1st 1916 attack is the subject of the fifth of the Battleground Europe series. Thre e other battles at Serre are also covered.
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Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals
 Author: Claes Ahlund Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals Nordic Academic Press ISBN: 9187121573 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 20,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 360 Denmark, Norway, and Sweden all managed to stay out of World War I, but all three countries were deeply affected by it. Opening with a systematically comparative introduction to the history of the Scandinavian countries during that time period, this account then presents 13 case studies examining the impact of the war on these neutral entities. From inflation and the shortage of consumer goods to widespread poverty and political unrest—not to mention the thousands of Scandinavian soldiers who participated in the war—this unique compilation analyzes the military and economic consequences as well as the vital political and social issues raised by the conflict.
Aisne 1914 (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Jerry Murland Aisne 1914 Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 208 Size: 50 Mb Language: English The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 - 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of the Marne, which took place further south as the huge conscript armies of France and Germany jostled for position almost within sight of Paris. By the time the British arrived on the Aisne, the battle line stretched some 150 miles from Noyon in the west to Verdun in the east and it was only along a tiny fifteen-mile sector in the middle that The British Expeditionary Force was engaged. However, it fought bitter engagements, which took place in difficult conditions and casualties were heavy. The Aisne fighting was the final attempt by the allies to follow through from the success of the Marne. It also marked the successful establishment by the Germans of a sound defensive line on this part of the front.
The Russian Origins of the First World War
 Author: Sean McMeekin The Russian Origins of the First World War Belknap Press ISBN: 0674072332 2013 Format: PDF Size: 5,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 344 The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the wars beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a tragedy of miscalculation. Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg.
Anzac: The Landing
 Author: Stephen Chambers Anzac: The Landing Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2008 Format: EPUB Pages: 208 Size: 27 Mb Language: English The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915. Landing on a hostile beach, under the cover of darkness, the Anzacs moved inland rapidly, but the response of the Ottoman forces was equally quick. The outcome of the campaign was arguably sealed during the first day, when the door for an Anzac victory was closed.
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914 - April 1915: Mons to Hill 60
 Author: Paul Oldfield Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914 - April 1915: Mons to Hill 60 Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 352 Size: 37 Mb Language: English The book is designed for the armchair reader as much as the battlefield visitor. A detailed account of each VC action sets it in the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close, where the VCs were won. Photographs of the battle sites illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each VC recipient and photographs.
St Quentin (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Helen McPhail St Quentin (Battleground Europe) Pen and Sword Military 2000 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 14 Mb Language: English After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918.
Slaughter on the Somme: 1July 1916
 Author: John Grehan, Martin Mace Slaughter on the Somme: 1July 1916 Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 512 Size: 13 Mb Language: English At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front, and began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East
 Author: Martin Sieff The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East (Politically Incorrect Guides) Regnery Publishing 2008 Format: PDF Size: 15.8 Mb Language: English Why most of what you think you know about the Middle East is wrong The Middle East: a region that's almost never off the front pages, yet one most Americans know little about. The mainstream media and Ivy League academics only make matters worse by casting everything in the usual politically correct mold: Arab terrorists are just desperate freedom fighters, and the region's one free democracy--Israel--is the oppressor, not least because of its alliance with America. And if Islamic extremism is a problem, the establishment tells us, it's only because it's rooted in that source of all evils: religion. A different strain of political correctness has seeped into some minds on the right--most notably the Bush administration, which, so ready to buy into the egalitarian myths we are all taught, believed that Western-style democracy could flourish anywhere. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East, veteran Middle East correspondent Martin Sieff puts the lie to all these myths and clichés, giving you everything you need to know about the region to understand its past, its present, and its possible future. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East, you'll learn: - How, for three decades, the British supported parliamentary democracy throughout the Middle East, but it didn't work - Why Britain's post-World War I Middle East policy was a comedy of errors and incompetence that soon escalated into tragedy - Where America went wrong in Iraq: how U.S. policymakers vastly underestimated the intransigent, unsophisticated, and anti-Western nature of its competing communities - How Saudi Arabia's security forces defeated al Qaeda--and why you never heard about it - How the Muslim nations of the Middle East took an irrevocable turn toward radical Islam not in the tenth century or after the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols in the thirteenth century--but in 1979 - How the Arab states openly declared their determination to prevent a Jewish state from being born in 1947--twenty years before the West Bank and Gaza were first occupied The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Middle East is a bold first step toward facing the hard truths necessary for peace.
Retreat of I Corps 1914 (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Jerry Murland Retreat of I Corps 191 Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 139 Size: 24 Mb Language: English On 23 August 1914 it was only the two divisions of General Smith-Dorrien’s II Corps that were directly engaged with the German First Army along the line of the Mons-Conde Canal. As the British Expeditionary Force withdrew from Mons and bivouacked around Bavay on 25 August, Sir John French and his GHQ advisors – unsure of the condition of the routes through the Forêt de Mormal - ordered the British Expeditionary Force to continue their retirement the next day and to avoid the 35 square miles of forest roads.
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