Winning and Losing on the Western Front
Title | Winning and Losing on the Western Front PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Boff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107024285 |
An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front.
Haig's Enemy
Title | Haig's Enemy PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Boff |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199670463 |
During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war--the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using Rupprecht's own diaries and letters, many of them never before published, Haig's Enemy views the Great War through the eyes of one of Germany's leading generals, shedding new light on many of the controversies of the Western Front. The picture which emerges is far removed from the sterile stalemate of myth. Instead, Boff re-draws the Western Front as a highly dynamic battlespace, both physical and intellectual, where three armies struggled not only to out-fight, but also to out-think, their enemy. The consequences of falling behind in the race to adapt would be more terrible than ever imagined.
Winning and Losing on the Western Front [electronic Resource].
Title | Winning and Losing on the Western Front [electronic Resource]. PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Boff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781139532167 |
Winning and Losing on the Western Front
Title | Winning and Losing on the Western Front PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Boff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781139526302 |
An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Title | All Quiet on the Western Front PDF eBook |
Author | Erich Maria Remarque |
Publisher | Crw Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | War stories |
ISBN | 9781907360671 |
This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Award.
The Western Front
Title | The Western Front PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Lloyd |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 024134719X |
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times 'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard account of this vital theatre of the conflict' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny _________________ In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war. However, as bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd reveals in this highly-praised history - the first of an epic trilogy -- the story is not one of pointlessness and stupidity, but rather a heroic triumph against the odds. With a cast of hundreds and a huge canvas of places and events, Lloyd tells the whole tale, revealing what happened in France and Belgium between August 1914 and November 1918 from the perspective of all the main combatants - including French, British, Belgian, US and, most importantly, German forces. Lloyd examines the most decisive campaigns of the Great War and explains the unprecedented innovation, adaptation and tactical development that have been too long obscured by legends of mud, blood and futility, drawing upon the latest scholarship on the war, wrongly overlooked first-person accounts, and archival material from every angle. Conveying the visceral assault of the battlefield with vivid detail, Lloyd ultimately redefines our understanding of a crucial theatre in this monumental tragedy. _________________ 'Excellent on detail . . . Lloyd's book will be cherished by military history buffs' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'It is the best modern single-volume history of war on the Western Front and is likely to remain the standard account for some time' Jonathan Boff, The Spectator
November 1918
Title | November 1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Gerwarth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199546479 |
The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.