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Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984-01-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0226904474
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Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984-01-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0226904474
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Author: Professor Michael S Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2014-02-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1908273100
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.
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 Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
Author: John Crehan
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1781593213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781838861193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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: Jane Gould
Publisher: World War I: Remembering the G
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780778703907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking the 100th anniversary of World War I, this series presents the dramatic course of events of the Great War and the conflict's lasting impact on the world. Discover the political and social turmoil of the time, the horrific conditions of trench warfare, the gripping accounts of naval combat, and the hero worship of flying aces. Short biographies and first-hand accounts help young readers relate to this world-changing period in history. After the assassination or Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, war was declared by Europe's five great powers. Although it was a European war, colonies also had to supply forces for European battles. World War I: 1914-1916 - A Terrible New Warfare Begins follows the first few years of the Great War. Opposing countries were equally matched in lighting power and relied on naval and U-boat blockades. They also dug in for a new kind of long-term fighting-trench warfare. Book jacket.
Author: Angus Mitchell
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: 2016-02-29
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1785370596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne Bold Deed of Open Treason describes the astonishing journey by Roger Casement to Germany in 1914, via New York and Norway. Arriving into Berlin under a false identity, Casement entered a space of conspiracy and subterfuge. Through his vivid and gripping diary entries, a picture emerges of a man caught in the crossfire of international events and spiralling towards a tragic denouement. In recording his daily thoughts, emotions and movements, Casement chronicles his despair at the conflict he witnessed, his hopeless mission to raise an Irish brigade and his attempts to promote the cause of Ireland in an escalating world crisis. With an expert editorial hand, Angus Mitchell provides clear context to Casement’s diaries, revealing his gruelling visit to the Western Front, the shocking interplay between the Easter Rising and the international theatre of the First World War, and the grand, sacrificial conclusion of his life.
Author: Michael Brock
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 0191009393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling record of her husband's fall from grace. An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an aristocrat, Margot was both a spectator and a participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George ('a natural adventurer who may make or mar himself any day'), Churchill ('Winston's vanity is septic'), and Kitchener ('a man brutal by nature and by pose'). Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider's view of the centre of power, and an introduction by Michael Brock, in addition to explanatory footnotes and appendices written with his wife Eleanor, provide the context and background information we need to appreciate them to the full.
Author: Norman Franks
Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1399078119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, Norman Franks tells the story, in words and images, of the emergence of some of the greatest fighter aces to see action during the first half of the First World War. He explores the manner in which the situation developed from late 1914 to the late summer of 1916, the point at which Oswald Boelcke helped form the German Jasta system that would prove so devastating to the RFC and RNAS. Utilizing images drawn from his large personal archive of photographs, Franks profiles some of the greatest and most notorious aces, as well as the aircraft in which they flew. The first years of the war saw some of the bravest acts of pilot gallantry and ingenuity play out. Franks celebrates the legacy of just a handful of these individuals, participants on both sides, including Boelcke's premier ace Manfred Von Richtofen, Lanoe Hawker, Georges Guynemer, Albert Ball, Lionel Rees, Wilhelm Frankl, and Stanley Dallas amongst many others.
Author: John Rushworth Jellicoe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1794872329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War. The actual strength of the fleet varied through the war as new ships were built and others were sunk, but the numbers steadily increased as the war progressed and the margin of superiority over the German fleet progressed with it. After America entered the war, US Battleship Division Nine was attached to the Grand Fleet as the Sixth Battle Squadron, adding four, and later five, dreadnought battleships. Author and Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War.