Notebooks, 1914-1916
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984-01-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0226904474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English and German. Includes index.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984-01-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0226904474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English and German. Includes index.
Author: Michael S Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 190662612X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border. To try to break through the opposing lines of trenches and barbed wire entanglements, both sides employed huge artillery bombardments followed by attacks by tens of thousands of soldiers. Battles could last for months and led to casualties measured in hundreds of thousands for attacker and defender alike. After most of these attacks, only a short section of the front would have moved and only by a kilometer or two. After Gallipoli, Australians were moved to fight in France on the western Front, in battles including the Battle of the Somme. On the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, 60,000 Allies were casualties, including 20,000 deaths. The principal adversaries on the Western Front, who fielded armies of millions of men, were Germany to the East against a western alliance to the West consisting of France and the United Kingdom with sizable contingents from the British Empire, especially the Dominions. The United States entered the war in 1917 and by the summer of 1918 had an army of around half a million men which rose to a million by the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. For most of World War I, Allied Forces, predominantly those of France and the British Empire, were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. With the last few men who served in World War I now dying out, and the 90th anniversary of the Armistice coming in November 2008, there is no better time to reevaluate this controversial war and shed fresh light on the conflict. With the aid of numerous black and white and color photographs, many previously unpublished, the World War I series recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. The text is complemented by full-color maps that guide the reader through specific actions and campaigns.
Author: David Silbey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1134269749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and then, in 1918, thrust back the German Army to win t
Author: Professor Michael S Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2014-02-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1908273100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.
Author: Andrew Wiest
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2014-02-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1908273119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Western Front 1917–1918 provides a detailed guide to the background and conduct of the conflict on the Western Front in the final years of World War I.
Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781838861193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border. This book recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air.
Author: David French
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1317686950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
Author: George H. Cassar
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2005-10-31
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1612344453
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Author: John Crehan
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1781593213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.??The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as Germany attacked France and the Allies sought to halt it; second, the lengthy and terribly costly siege warfare as the entrenched lines proved impossible to crack (late 1914 to mid-1918); and finally a return to mobile warfare as the Allies applied lessons and technologies forged in the previous years.??As with previous wars, British Commanders-in-Chief of a theatre of war or campaign were obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War Office in the form of a despatch and those written from the Western Front provide a fascinating, detailed and compelling overview of this part of the First World War.
Author: David Silbey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1134269757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to fill the ranks.