Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Two Men in a Trench II
Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Two Men in a Trench
Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718144746
Category : Battlefields
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In this volume, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver visit the sites of six major British battles, from Shrewsbury to Culloden, and carry out a full archaeological investigation at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat and chaos of battle they closely follow the progress of each engagement and answer key historical questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events. Each chapter is a fully framed investigation and follows an episode of the BBC television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the past, Tony and Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of conflict like shadows, and in the process they show that battlefields are some of our most important national monuments.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718144746
Category : Battlefields
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In this volume, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver visit the sites of six major British battles, from Shrewsbury to Culloden, and carry out a full archaeological investigation at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat and chaos of battle they closely follow the progress of each engagement and answer key historical questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events. Each chapter is a fully framed investigation and follows an episode of the BBC television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the past, Tony and Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of conflict like shadows, and in the process they show that battlefields are some of our most important national monuments.
A Manual of Gas Distribution
Author: Walton Forstall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Engineering-contracting
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
World War I Trench Warfare Pamphlets Combined: How to Survive in the Trenches; Killing at Close Quarters; Barbed Wire Training, Tactics and Defences; Grenades and Explosives; and Concertina Wire
Author:
Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
All these handy pamphlets were produced by the Canadian government prior to 1919: Contents: 1. How to survive in the trenches This booklet, written with the benefit of three years of experience with trench warfare, covered everything from gas discipline to rum rations. 2. Killing at close quarters This training manual stressed that effective bayonet fighting required "Good Direction, Strength and Quickness, during a state of wild excitement and probably physical exhaustion." 3. Constructing barbed wire defences This manual, used for training purposes by the 215th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was based on two years' worth of hard experience in defending captured positions. 4. "You have in explosives a good servant" In this book, Sergeant Coleman of the Royal Canadian Regiment sought to augment the short time given to grenade training by providing practical hints on handling, arming, throwing, and making various kinds of bombs for use in trench warfare. 5. Grenades in trench warfare One lesson of trench warfare was that "bombing" (or using hand grenades) was much more important in capturing and clearing enemy trenches than had been imagined before the war. As a result, training manuals like this one by James Ferris, who joined the 63rd Battalion in Edmonton in July 1915, were published as a way to pass on new tactical knowledge. 6. Some Notes on the Minor Tactics of Trench Warfare A Brigade Major of the Corps of Royal Engineers presents a thorough overview of trench warfare tactics, emphasizing the cooperation between infantry and engineers. 7. Training in barbed wire Given the importance of barbed wire during the First World War, it came as no surprise that in the Second World War there would be considerable emphasis on instructing soldiers in its use.
Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
All these handy pamphlets were produced by the Canadian government prior to 1919: Contents: 1. How to survive in the trenches This booklet, written with the benefit of three years of experience with trench warfare, covered everything from gas discipline to rum rations. 2. Killing at close quarters This training manual stressed that effective bayonet fighting required "Good Direction, Strength and Quickness, during a state of wild excitement and probably physical exhaustion." 3. Constructing barbed wire defences This manual, used for training purposes by the 215th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was based on two years' worth of hard experience in defending captured positions. 4. "You have in explosives a good servant" In this book, Sergeant Coleman of the Royal Canadian Regiment sought to augment the short time given to grenade training by providing practical hints on handling, arming, throwing, and making various kinds of bombs for use in trench warfare. 5. Grenades in trench warfare One lesson of trench warfare was that "bombing" (or using hand grenades) was much more important in capturing and clearing enemy trenches than had been imagined before the war. As a result, training manuals like this one by James Ferris, who joined the 63rd Battalion in Edmonton in July 1915, were published as a way to pass on new tactical knowledge. 6. Some Notes on the Minor Tactics of Trench Warfare A Brigade Major of the Corps of Royal Engineers presents a thorough overview of trench warfare tactics, emphasizing the cooperation between infantry and engineers. 7. Training in barbed wire Given the importance of barbed wire during the First World War, it came as no surprise that in the Second World War there would be considerable emphasis on instructing soldiers in its use.
The London Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Engineering News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Trench
Author: Daniel Freedman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039100651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Set during the bloody hand-to-hand combat between Allied and German troops in the First World War, Trench is centred on the lives of Reilly Weathers and Sean Foley, two young soldiers in the British Fourth Army, 32nd Division. As the men fight the harsh realities of war, they’re welded as comrades and confidantes, with each one battling his own personal demons. Back in London, Reilly’s girlfriend Marie desperately awaits his safe return home. She confronts power and politics in her own campaign to further the women's suffrage movement and support the war effort in a male-dominated world. As the British soldiers fight to survive in the trenches, they’re haunted by the spectre of a blood-thirsty beast—one that’s perhaps even more fearsome and formidable than the Germans. The recruits must band together to battle their darkest fears and vanquish not only the monsters that dwell within their minds, but also the growling abomination that stalks them from the shadows.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039100651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Set during the bloody hand-to-hand combat between Allied and German troops in the First World War, Trench is centred on the lives of Reilly Weathers and Sean Foley, two young soldiers in the British Fourth Army, 32nd Division. As the men fight the harsh realities of war, they’re welded as comrades and confidantes, with each one battling his own personal demons. Back in London, Reilly’s girlfriend Marie desperately awaits his safe return home. She confronts power and politics in her own campaign to further the women's suffrage movement and support the war effort in a male-dominated world. As the British soldiers fight to survive in the trenches, they’re haunted by the spectre of a blood-thirsty beast—one that’s perhaps even more fearsome and formidable than the Germans. The recruits must band together to battle their darkest fears and vanquish not only the monsters that dwell within their minds, but also the growling abomination that stalks them from the shadows.
Everybody's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Engineering and Contracting
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description