Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916
Author: George H. Cassar
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2005-10-31
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1612344453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
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British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)
Author: David French
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1317686950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
Churchill, Kithener and Lloyd George
Author: Steve Cliffe
Publisher:
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781781552728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWould it have been possible for the First World War to be avoided? Steve Cliffe, author of Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords, believes so, as did David Lloyd George, Britain's wartime prime minister. In a bloody act of annihilation that killed over half a million young British men, Lloyd George was one of three powerful personalities who indelibly stamped their authority and influence on the conduct and final outcome of the war to end all wars'. Of the other two, Winston Churchill became better known for his role in the Second World War, although his role in the earlier conflict was considerable firstly as First Lord of the Admiralty and later outside the government. Lord Kitchener was arguably the greatest instigator of Britain's war effort.
Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914
Author: George.H. Cassar
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783319393629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the tenure of Kitchener as Proconsul in Egypt in the years preceding the First World War. Based mostly on unpublished sources – including government records and private papers – it not only fills a gap in the life and career of Kitchener, the most famous soldier in Britain since Wellington, but it also deals with an important but practically unknown period in Egyptian history. George Cassar shows Kitchener to be an ardent imperialist, but one who had a sense of responsibility to the country he governed. Exchanging his field marshal’s uniform for the dress of a statesman, he arrived in Egypt when British prestige was at a low point on account of his predecessor’s policies. He restored political stability, created conditions that bolstered the economy, and introduced a wave of reforms. Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914 reveals how Kitchener’s interest extended beyond Egypt, and how throughout these years he worked quietly to prepare the ground in an attempt to create an Arab Empire under Britain’s suzerainty.
The Western Front 1914-1916
Author: Professor Michael S Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 190662612X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015986466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Victory through Coalition
Author: Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1139448471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGermany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field and in the two capitals. She details the civil-military relations on each side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the maritime and industrial collaboration that were indispensable to an industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the western front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition.
Britain and Victory in the Great War
Author: Peter Liddle
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-06-30
Total Pages: 729
ISBN-13: 1473891639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking collection of original essays on the outcome of the war and its aftermath is of such value.It completes the trilogy of ground-breaking volumes conceived and edited by Peter Liddle which presents the latest scholarly thinking about the Great War from an international perspective. The first two volumes Britain Goes to War and Britain and the Widening War made this stimulating new writing accessible to a broad readership and this final volume has the same aim.A group of over twenty expert contributors reconsider the military reasons for the outcome of the fighting and look at the consequences for the principal nations involved. They explore the way the war and the peace settlement shaped the twentieth century and had an enduring impact within Europe and beyond.
The British Army and the First World War
Author: Ian Beckett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1107005779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.
Kitchener
Author: C. Brad Faught
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0857727567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoratio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In between he became both the most famous British soldier in the world during the peak period of European imperialism, and a celebrated and sometimes controversial pro-consul and administrator. At his death in 1916 he had literally become the 'face' of the British war effort. This new biography offers a timely and modern evaluation of a still disputed and complex military man of empire.
