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 The First World War - The war to end all wars 
 Author: Geoffrey Jukes, Peter Simkins, Michael Hickey The First World War - The war to end all wars Osprey Publishing ISBN: 9781841767383 2003 Format: PDF Size: 22,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 352 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.
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army
 Author: Stephen Kurt Westmann Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 159 Size: 6 Mb Language: English The Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front.
Breaking the Fortress Line 1914
 Author: Clayton Donnell Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 222 Size: 35 Mb Language: English Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 offers a fascinating new perspective on the German offensive against France and Belgium in 1914. In graphic detail it describes the intense fighting that took place around the forts and fortified cities that stood in the path of the German invasion. The ordeal began with the German assault on the mighty fortress of Liège. They took twelve days to batter their way through the ‘Gateway to Belgium’, losing tens of thousands of men in repeated frontal assaults, and they had to bring up the heaviest siege artillery ever used to destroy the defenses.
The Early Birds of War: The Daring Pilots and Fighter Airplanes of World War I
 Author: Thomas R Funderburk The Early Birds of War: The Daring Pilots and Fighter Airplanes of World War I Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 17.5 MB A detailed, fully illustrated overview of the various planes, and by extension the pilots, used in World War I.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
 Author:Hew Strachan The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War 2014 Oxford University Press; New edition Format:pdf Size:66,3 MB Pages:400 Language:English
The Germans on the Somme 1914-1918 (Images of War)
 Author: David Bilton The Germans on the Somme 1914-1918 Pen and Sword Images of War 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 19 Mb Language: English This highly illustrated book covers the activities of the German Army on the River Somme throughout the long years of The Great War. The initial fighting in 1914 was against the French prior to the arrival of the British Army. The 1916 Allied Offensive eventually resulted in the German withdrawal but only at a terrible cost to both sides. The 1918 Kaiserschlacht saw the Germans return, albeit briefly. Each phase is covered from the German perspective using primary and secondary sources. In addition to the wealth of splendid/fully captioned photographs, there is an authoritative general text and a useful chronological order of events. Being arguably the most evocative area in British military history, much has been written on the Somme. What makes this splendid book so different is the author's successful attempt to view events through the eyes of our adversaries.
The British Army 1914-1918
 Author: Andrew Rawson The British Army 1914-1918 Spellmount 2014 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 299 Language: English Size: 10.4 MB An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the ‘Old Contemptibles’ – the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war – to the Territorials, the ‘Derby Men’, Kitchener’s ‘New Army’ and the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser’s armies four years later. Andrew Rawson examines the impressive contributions made by the Dominions and the Empire and explores aspects of doctrine, training, communications, strategy and tactics, together with divisional organisations, histories and the roles of the different Arms and Services. He reviews all aspects of the soldier’s everyday life – uniforms, equipment, rations, trench life, leave and military discipline – and profiles the commanders and the legacy of the war in art, as well as providing information on cemeteries and places of interest. It is all here, in one book.
Who Killed the Red Baron? The Final Answer
 Author: P. J. Carisella, James W. Ryan Who Killed the Red Baron? The Final Answer Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 292 Language: English Size: 51.2 MB The final answer to the half-century old controversy concerning the death of the top flying ace of World War I, Baron Manfred Von Richthofen.
The 1st Marine Division and Its Regiments
 Author: Anna A. Ferrante The 1st Marine Division and Its Regiments CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 0160501016 1999 Format: PDF Size: 6,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 79 The 1st Marine Division and Its Regiments is a narrative of the division and its regiments since its activation in December 1913. This history is based on the official records of the United States Marine Corps and appropriate secondary sources. It is published for the information of those interested in the division and its regiments and the role played and continues to play in adding to Marine Corps traditions and battle honors.
Battleground Gallipoli
 Author: Nigel Steel Battleground Gallipoli Pen & Sword 1998 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 208 Language: English Size: 7 MB Gallipoli tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. With then and now photographs the book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events, all of which will appeal to the armchair historian and the intrepid visitor to the sites. It will prove an indispensable companion.
Vimy Ridge (Battleground Europe)
Author: Nigel Cave
Vimy Ridge (Battleground Europe)
Pen and Sword Military
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 208
Size: 45 Mb
Language: English
The latest in the Battleground Europe series of books covers the activities of the French army, the British occupation of the Vimy sector, Easter 1917 and the start of the Battle of Arras, in addition to sections on car tours, memorials and cemeteries.
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The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918
 Author: Ross Anderson The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918 The History Press 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 368 Size: 5 Mb Language: English
World War I: A History
 Author: Hew Strachan World War I: A History Oxford University Press 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 392 Language: English Size: 56 MB The war that shaped the history of the twentieth century. A compelling new history of World War I by an international team of experts. Extensively illustrated to display the war in every aspect, from its causes to its consequences, and the potent legacy which still touches us today.
The Germans at Thiepval (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Jack Sheldon The Germans at Thiepval Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 6 Mb Language: English Ninety years after the Battle of the Somme was fought, visitors continue to flock in very large numbers to the massive Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval, site of a bitter three-month struggle during the summer of 1916. This book explains in detail how, from the autumn of 1914 onwards, the German defenders turned this key feature into a virtually impregnable position, from which they were able for weeks on end to repulse every attempt to capture it.
The Soviet Air Force Since 1918
 Author: Alexander Boyd The Soviet Air Force Since 1918 Stein and Day Publishers 1977 Format: PDF Pages: 308 Language: English Size: 32.5 MB thanks to adeda While the Soviet Russian naval buildup made Western headlines, the expansion of their air power went largely unnoticed. By 1977, that air force commanded a larger share of the Soviet Russian defense budget than the navy. This comprehensive book reveals for the first time in English what happened to the air force in the 1930's during Stalin's purges and the drastic effect on operational performance, how in the first three years of World War II the Soviets then reversed the balance of air power against the German Luftwaffe, and how the organization and concepts created during the war determined the kind of air force that was later expanded in the Cold War. Alexander Boyd's fluency in Russian enabled him to use extensively a wide range of then contemporary Russian documentary material which portrayed the men behind the planes: the commanders, the designers, the pilots. Boyd also showed how quickly the Soviets assimilated the technology of the jet and atomic age and how their then new strategic bombers complicated the SALT-2 talks between the Russian government and the United States. THE SOVIET AIR FORCE included production maps and training centers as well as diagrams of the command structure that was in force during the Cold War.
Guillemont (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Michael Stedman Guillemont Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 14 Mb Language: English The battle of Guillemont raged throughout Au gust 1916. This book contains the story of this battle which was of a type that was repeated in many places across the S omme in that summer and autumn of 1916.
The Germans in Flanders 1914
 Author: David Bilton The Germans in Flanders 1914 Pen and Sword Images of War 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 36 Mb Language: English The book follows in photographs, captions and text the German Army's presence in Flanders from its arrival in September 1914 until the summer of 1916.It looks at the Kaiser's Army's battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter and the battles for Ypres (1st Ypres - 1914 and 2nd Ypres - 1915 and the gas attacks). The book is arranged in four sections; detailed text; around 50.000 photos (that are interspersed into the text with captions); a chronological order of events in Flanders and a section on the German divisions that fought there.
Battle on the Aisne 1914: The BEF and the Birth of the Western Front
 Author: John Sheen Battle on the Aisne 1914: The BEF and the Birth of the Western Front Pen and Sword Military 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 156 Size: 24 Mb Language: English The river Aisne featured prominently in August 1914 during the Retreat from Mons and in September was the scene of bitter fighting when the BEF re-crossed it in their unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the German Army entrenched along the Northern Crest.The fighting was hugely costly to the BEF, which had already fought three major engagements and marched over 200 miles in a month. The three British Corps lost over 700 officers and some 15,000 men. Little wonder one officer wrote that he felt he was 'in the company of ghosts'.Historian Jerry Murland places the Aisne battles in their context, both from the BEF and German viewpoints.
Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War
 Author: Michael Freemantle Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War Spellmount 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 196 Size: 3 Mb Chemistry was not only a destructive instrument of World War I, but also protected troops and healed the sick and wounded. From bombs to bullets, gas to anesthetic, khaki to camouflage, chemistry was truly the alchemy of the war. This history explores its dangers and its healing potential, revealing how the arms race was also a race for chemistry, to the extent that Germany's thirst for fertilizer to feed the creation of their shells nearly starved the nation. It answers question such as: What is cordite? What is lyddite? What is mustard gas? What is phosgene? What is gunmetal? This is a true picture of the horrors of the "Chemists' War."
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