Soldiers Of The Great War (Volume III)

Soldiers Of The Great War (Volume III)
Title Soldiers Of The Great War (Volume III) PDF eBook
Author W. H. Haulsee
Publisher Alpha Edition
Pages 518
Release 2020-12-02
Genre History
ISBN 9789354305207

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A Soldier of the Great War

A Soldier of the Great War
Title A Soldier of the Great War PDF eBook
Author Mark Helprin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Pages 808
Release 1991
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Title Boy Soldiers of the Great War PDF eBook
Author Richard van Emden
Publisher Pen and Sword Military
Pages 577
Release 2021-11-24
Genre History
ISBN 1399011642

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After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely. These boys frequently enlisted together, training for a year or more in the same battalions before they were sent abroad. Others joined up but were soon sent to units already fighting overseas and short of men: these lads might undergo as little as eight weeks’ training. Boys served in the bloodiest battles of the war, fighting at Ypres, the Somme and on Gallipoli. Many broke down under the strain and were returned home once parents supplied birth certificates proving their youth. Other lads fought on bravely and were even awarded medals for gallantry: Jack Pouchot won the Distinguished Conduct Medal aged just fifteen. Others became highly efficient officers, such as Acting Captain Philip Lister and Second Lieutenant Reginald Battersby, both of whom were commissioned at fifteen and fought in France. In this, the final update of his ground-breaking book, Richard van Emden reveals new hitherto unknown stories and adds many more unseen images. He also proves that far more boys enlisted in the British Army under-age than originally estimated, providing compelling evidence that as many as 400,000 served.

Soldiers Of The Great War, Volume 1

Soldiers Of The Great War, Volume 1
Title Soldiers Of The Great War, Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author A C (Alfred Cyril) 1893- Doyle
Publisher Legare Street Press
Pages 472
Release 2021-09-09
Genre
ISBN 9781014888082

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Death's Men

Death's Men
Title Death's Men PDF eBook
Author Denis Winter
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 352
Release 2014-10-23
Genre History
ISBN 0241969212

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Death's Men is the classic bestselling story of the First World War as told by the soldiers themselves - reissued for the 2014 Centenary. Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-1918. But, both during and after the war, the individual voices of the soldiers were lost in the collective picture. Men drew arrows on maps and talked of battles and campaigns, but what it felt like to be in the front line or in a base hospital they did not know. Civilians did not ask and soldiers did not write. Death's Men portrays the humble men who were called on to face the appalling fears and discomforts of the fighting zone. It shows the reality of the First World War through the voices of the men who fought. 'A raw, haunting read that puts you directly into the shoes of the men who rushed to volunteer at the start of the war' Guardian 'An engrossing view of what it was like to live in the trenches, go on leave, get wounded, et cetera, and features voice after voice from the ranks' Telegraph Denis Winter was born in 1940 and read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Death's Men was first published in 1978, to critical and popular acclaim. This was followed by his book The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War.

Men Under Fire

Men Under Fire
Title Men Under Fire PDF eBook
Author Jiří Hutečka
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 300
Release 2019-12-03
Genre History
ISBN 1789205425

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In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers’ imperial loyalties has dominated the historical literature to the exclusion of any debate on their identities and experiences. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself. It combines methods from history, gender studies, and military science to reveal the extent to which the Great War challenged these men’s senses of masculinity, and to which the resulting dynamics influenced their attitudes and loyalties.

German Soldiers in the Great War

German Soldiers in the Great War
Title German Soldiers in the Great War PDF eBook
Author Bernd Ulrich
Publisher Grub Street Publishers
Pages 193
Release 2012-09-20
Genre History
ISBN 1844687643

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The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI. German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of ordinary soldiers that have been covered up by the smokescreen of official military propaganda about “heroism” and “patriotic sacrifice.” In this essential collection of wartime correspondence, editors Benjamin Ziemann and Bernd Ulrich have gathered more than two hundred mostly archival documents, including letters, military dispatches and orders, extracts from diaries, newspaper articles and booklets, medical reports and photographs. This fascinating primary source material provides the first comprehensive insight into the German frontline experiences of the Great War, available in English for the first time in a translation by Christine Brocks.