Author: Dixhuit (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defensive (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Safety in Trench Warfare for Yourself & Your Men
Author: Dixhuit (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defensive (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defensive (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Enduring the Great War
Author: Alexander Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.
Mud, Blood and Poppycock
Author: Gordon Corrigan
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780225547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780225547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.
A Select Analytical List of Books Concerning the Great War
Author: George Walter Prothero
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Germline
Author: T. C. McCarthy
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316179922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. Also: secret military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (slang). War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for The Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan. But war is nothing like he expected. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the surface. The genetics-the germline soldiers-are the key to winning this war, but some inventions can't be un-done. Some technologies can't be put back in the box. Kaz will change everything, not least Oscar himself. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and drugs, Oscar doesn't find the war, the war finds him.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316179922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. Also: secret military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (slang). War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for The Stars and Stripes, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan. But war is nothing like he expected. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the surface. The genetics-the germline soldiers-are the key to winning this war, but some inventions can't be un-done. Some technologies can't be put back in the box. Kaz will change everything, not least Oscar himself. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and drugs, Oscar doesn't find the war, the war finds him.
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual].
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books ...: 1801-1836. Ed. and comp. by R.A. Peddie and Q. Waddington. 1914
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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The Bookseller
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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