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The WRNS in Wartime

The Women's Royal Naval Service 1917-1945

by Hannah Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah...

Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac

by David Murray Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. ‘This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. ‘He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he...

Somewhere in Blood Soaked France

The Diary of Corporal Angus Mackay, Royal Scots, Machine Gun Corps, 1914-1917

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

From the heat and dust of the Dardanelles to the mud of the Western Front, Corporal Angus Mackay had one constant companion, his diary. He wrote of the battles and campaigns he fought in, names that would go down in history: Gallipoli, the Somme, Ypres, and Arras. Serving in the 1st/5th Battalion...

Hitler's Naval Bases

Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War

by Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017

Hitler's U-boats and his dreaded pocket battleships such as Bismarck and Tirpitz - Churchill dubbed the latter as 'The Beast' - continue to fascinate an ever-growing interest in the Second World War. Despite a numerical disadvantage when compared the Royal Navy, Hitler's U-boats wrecked havoc in the...

1915 The First World War at Sea in Photographs

by Phil Carradice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Submarines and blockades dominated the war at sea in 1915. The major event was the sinking by U-20 of the Lusitania, which edged America closer to war. The Germans had announced a blockade of Britain in February, using submarines to sink and harry shipping. A British blockade of Germany was announced...

Foch in Command

The Forging of a First World War General

by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011

Ferdinand Foch ended the First World War as Marshal of France and supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front. Foch in Command is a pioneering study of his contribution to the Allied victory. Elizabeth Greenhalgh uses contemporary notebooks, letters and documents from previously under-studied...

Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20

by Nigel Thomas, Toomas Boltowsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and Red and White Russian armies began their civil...

Overcoming the Battlefield Stalemate:

The Introduction of Armored Fighting Vehicles and Tactics in the British Army During the First World War

by David P. Cavaleri
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This report documents the development of trench warfare on the Western Front during the First World War and the technological experiments conducted by the British Expeditionary Force to overcome the loss of strategic mobility. Reviews the work of E. D. Swinton, Churchill, Haig, J. F. C. Fuller, B....

Hidden Weapons

by Basil Collier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006

In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents...

The First World War (3)

The Western Front 1917–1918

by Peter Simkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

In this, the second volume covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917. Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort...

The First World War (4)

The Mediterranean Front 1914–1923

by Michael Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

The First World War in the Mediterranean represented more than just a peripheral theatre to the war on the western front. This engaging volume includes details of allied attempts to capture Constantinople; bloody campaigning in Northern Italy; the defence of the Suez Canal and the defeat of the Turkish...

The Cavalry Lance

by Alan Larsen, Henry Yallop
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armour from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry lance in early modern warfare. However, by 1800 the lance, much changed from its medieval predecessors in both form and function, was back. During...

The History Of The South African Forces In France [Illustrated Edition]

by Colonel John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes 22 maps and 18 illustrations Tens of thousands of men came from all round the Empire to aid the British war effort in the First World War; men from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and South Africa fought and died on battlefields far away from their homes. Although these soldiers fought...

The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals)

Volume II

by Lord Hankey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One. Mostly derived from the author’s diaries, which began in March 1915, this study describes how Lord Hankey...

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