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Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War

A Soldier of the Great War

by Bill Lamin
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy,...

The Dynamics Of Doctrine: The Changes In German Tactical Doctrine During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

by Captain Timothy Lupfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

[Includes 4 maps and 3 figures] This latest Leavenworth Paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine. Previous publications of the Combat Studies Institute have examined the peacetime development of doctrine and have increased our knowledge of how doctrine has been applied....

THE GREAT PUSH - An Episode on the Western Front during the Great War

by Patrick Macgill
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017

By 1915 the trenches of the Western Front were in different states of repair, including the captured trenches, which had all but been destroyed as a result of shell fire. The countryside and villages were a scene of utter devastation, nothing but mud and mounds of rubble where communities and fields...

Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery

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Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery

by Charles William Domville-Fife
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I DESIRE simply to say that I commenced taking an active interest in submarines in 1904. I wrote my first book on the subject, Submarines of the World's Navies, in 1910, and I have watched and written of the rise...

Art Of The Possible: T. E. Lawrence And Coalition Liaison [Illustrated Edition]

by Major Curtis S. Milam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918. Coalition warfare has been, and will continue to be, a matter of course for the U.S. military. Developing and maintaining coalitions of politically and militarily diverse...

The Red Baron

A History in Pictures

by Norman Franks
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Keen First World War aviation enthusiasts will be familiar with Norman Franks’ previous books covering the life of Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, so why this new one? Well Manfred, the iconic Red Baron, has constantly remained at the forefront of First World War studies and, in commemorating...

OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR

When War Became 'Not Only Inevitable But Also Desirable'

by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014

WITH THE CURRENT centennial chatter on the whys and wherefores of the First World War, not much has been said about the preceding general European social crisis as a force for international tension in 1914. The debate on the origins of the war has long revolved around ascribing responsibility for...

1918

The Last Act

by Barrie Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

This vividly detailed history examines the battles and politics in the final year of WWI—includes trench diagrams, photographs, and maps of battles. Three years into the Great War, Europe found itself in a stalemate on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed and the United States had...

The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1

American Destroyers in Action, Decoying Submarines to Destruction, The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea, German Submarines Visit the American Coast, The Navy Fighting on the Land

by William Sowden Sims, Burton J. Hendrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

This eBook edition of "The Victory at Sea: History of the Naval Combat in WW1" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This 1921 Pulitzer Prize awarded history has been written in response to a demand for some account of the generally...

The Russian Army in the First World War

Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

by Nik Cornish
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

For 100 years little attention has been paid to the Russian army that fought the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians in the First World War on the Eastern Front. Yet the Tsar's army played a critical part in the global conflict and was engaged in a sequence of shattering campaigns that were waged on...

Gallipoli

Command Under Fire

by Prof. Edward J Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015

Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites – just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy. The campaign became,...

The Dark Invader

Wartime Reminiscences Of A German Naval Intelligence Officer

by Captain Franz von Rintelen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

Men engaged in Intelligence Services during a war divide their particular opponents into two classes. One consists of neutrals who go out of their way to help the enemy for the sake of gain; and for such men we have not much compassion should they fall upon misfortune. They are interfering in great...

Gender and the Great War

by Susan R. Grayzel, Tammy M. Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak, the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar...

The US Army 1890–1920

by Philip Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012

Between 1890 and 1920 the US Army underwent profound changes in organization, function, composition and appearance. The Army was transformed from a small, blue-clad force whose primary weapon was the single-shot rifle, into a mighty host of men dressed in dirt-coloured combat uniforms, using automatic...

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