Britain's Call to Arms
Author | : Nesta Helen Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nesta Helen Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Messenger |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780227590 |
This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War -- the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War, both on the Western Front and in other theatres, Charles Messenger tells how the British Army managed the challenges of command, training, technology and new weapons of war. He examines officer selection, medicine, discipline, the manpower crisis of 1918, the integration of women into the forces and many other topics. Based on years of original research, this will become the standard work of reference on the organization and administration of the biggest army Britain has ever put into the field.
Author | : Redmond Leo Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : War poetry, Australian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maury Klein |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608194094 |
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Author | : William DUNCAN (of Dundee.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shaw, George Alexander, b. 1844 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1914* |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir John Hackett |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
I read this book on the recommendation from a fellow officer in order to gain a better historical perspective of the military profession. This book develops the lineage from Armies of the ancient world to today's modern Armies in a rather concise and insightful manner. Sir John Hackett focuses a lot on the relationship between the military forces and the countries they represent on the battlefield. He also offers some interesting opinions about training future leaders in the Armed Services based on his vast military experience and career. I thoroughly enjoyed this book (it has many interesting photos and prints throughout the text), although it is written from a European (the author is British) perspective. The author does devote some time to the US Army, but his main focus is the European military system. Therefore, if you are looking for a book about how the American Army has changed over time, I do not recommend this one. On the other hand, I do recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more about how the profession of arms has developed over time. It would make a fine addition to your military history library if you have one, or serve as a great first addition, if you are thinking of starting one. -- website.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473838320 |
Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War. Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle Collection in the University Library at Leeds and supporting this with photographs from private and public collections from many parts of the British Isles, Britons Experience the Great War brings the experience of soldiers, sailors and airmen graphically close. It is, however, not just the fighting fronts which are so well represented: from the industrial, agricultural, domestic, educational and war resistance scenes, the response to war of workers, wives, sweethearts, students, children, rebels and resisters is made clear. Fund raising, rationing, humour, anxiety and grief are documented in this book in a way which provides touching testimony of the spirit of the times.With almost four hundred illustrations, the book spans the British Isles and the most remote fighting fronts.