Author: Jonathan Nicholls
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844687562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front. Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare. In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.
Cheerful Sacrifice
Author: Jonathan Nicholls
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844687562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front. Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare. In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844687562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front. Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare. In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.
How Curious a Land
Author: Jonathan M. Bryant
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers. Emancipated slaves made up two-thirds of the county's population at the end of the Civil War, and thanks to an able, charismatic, and politically active leadership, they enjoyed early success in pressing for their rights. But their gains, says Bryant, were only temporary, because the white elite retained control of the legal system and used it effectively against blacks. Law also helped shape the course of economic change as, for example, postbellum laws designed to benefit the new commercial elite ensured poverty for most of the county's small farmers, both black and white, by relegating them to the status of sharecroppers and tenants. As a result, the county's wealth, though greatly diminished in the postbellum years, remained concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers. Emancipated slaves made up two-thirds of the county's population at the end of the Civil War, and thanks to an able, charismatic, and politically active leadership, they enjoyed early success in pressing for their rights. But their gains, says Bryant, were only temporary, because the white elite retained control of the legal system and used it effectively against blacks. Law also helped shape the course of economic change as, for example, postbellum laws designed to benefit the new commercial elite ensured poverty for most of the county's small farmers, both black and white, by relegating them to the status of sharecroppers and tenants. As a result, the county's wealth, though greatly diminished in the postbellum years, remained concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
The People's Hymnal
Author: Edmund Simon Lorenz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War
Author: Vanda Wilcox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316692469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316692469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.
Gambetta. Cleveland. Cook. Ireland. Hay. Long. Morley. Phelps. Denison. Everett. Reed. Burke. Zola. Didon. Chapleau. "Captain Mackay" (William Francis Lomasney). Cummings. Laurier. Parkhurst. McKinley. Dilke. Thompson
Author: Mayo Williamson Hazeltine
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley
Author: Mayo Williamson Hazeltine
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Harvard Graduates' Magazine
Author: William Roscoe Thayer
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Languages : en
Pages : 666
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The Library of Oratory
Author: Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Publisher:
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Category : Rhetorical criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhetorical criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Library of Oratory, Ancient and Modern
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present
Author: Alexander Kelly McClure
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Publisher:
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Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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