Author: John David Hills
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fifth Leicestershire" (A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919) by John David Hills. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: John David Hills
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Category : Regimental histories
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: William Burton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Author: John Spencer
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Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Peter Hart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190873000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves, and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice. After four years of bloodshed, Germany was nearly bankrupt and there was a growing rift between the military High Command and political leadership. But it also remained a determined combatant, and France and Great Britain had equally been stretched to their limits; Russia had abandoned the conflict in the late winter of 1918. However complex the causes of Germany's ultimate defeat, Allied success on the Western Front, as Hart reveals, tipped the scales-the triumphs at the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Sambre, the Selle, and the Meuse-Argonne, where American forces made arguably their greatest contribution. The offensives cracked the Hindenburg Line and wore down the German resistance, precipitating collapse. Final victory came at great human cost and involved the combined efforts of millions of men. Using the testimony of a range of participants, from the Doughboys, Tommies, German infantrymen, and French poilus who did the fighting, to those in command during those last days and weeks, Hart brings intimacy and sweep to the events that led to November 11, 1918.
Author: William KELLY (of Leicester.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Peter Hart
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1399068814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King’s Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the Western Front during the Great War. Human beings are complicated, and there is no set pattern as to how they react to the outrageous stresses of war. But humor, often dark and representative of the horrors around them could and often did help. They may have been up to their knees in mud and blood, soaking wet and shot at from all sides, but many were still determined to see the ‘funny side’, rather than surrender to utter misery. Peter Hart and Gary Bain have delved deep into the archives to find examples of the soldier’s wit. The results are at times hilarious but rooted in tragedy. You have to laugh or cry.
