Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman, Alexander Aitken

Автор: Forczyk Robert
Название: German Infantryman vs Russian Infantryman
ISBN: 1472806549 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472806543
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Описание: The Eastern Front of World War I is sometimes overshadowed by the fighting in the West. This study assesses the tactics and combat performance of both sides fighting in clashes at Gumbinnen, Goritten and Mahartse, examining their contrasting fortunes and revealing the evolving nature of infantry warfare on the Eastern Front during World War I.

Автор: Nicolle David
Название: Ottoman Infantryman 1914–18
ISBN: 1846035066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846035067
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Описание: Following the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, the Ottoman Empire undertook a massive military retraining program. Although many histories have depicted the Ottomans as a poor fighting force, this was more often due to poor leadership and logistics. This book focuses exclusively on the Ottoman infantryman in the First World War.

Автор: Sumner Ian
Название: ANZAC Infantryman 1914–15
ISBN: 1849083282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849083287
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Описание: "ANZAC Infantryman, 1914-15: From New Guinea to Gallipoli".

Автор: Bull, Stephen
Название: British Infantryman vs German Infantryman
ISBN: 1782009140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782009146
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Описание: The struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 is remembered for the toll of casualties inflicted on Britain`s `New Armies` by the German defenders on 1 July. This study pits the volunteers of Kitchener`s `New Armies` against the German veterans who defended the Somme sector in the battles of July-November 1916.

Автор: John Dixon
Название: A Vital Endeavour: Mlitary Engineering in the Gallipoli Campaign
ISBN: 1911628895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911628897
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Описание: Whilst the Gallipoli Campaign has received considerable interest over the years, the work of the Royal Engineers during that campaign has been largely overlooked. This book seeks to address this oversight to demonstrate the amount of engineering work required for a seaborne invasion. It was the engineers that provided the technical and professional back up for the rest of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and produced the knowhow to keep the men in the front line supplied with all manner of necessities for their work. The Royal Engineers were working on the first day of the landings and were amongst the last to leave on the evacuation, and their story includes all the major engagement of the campaign. It also includes the sometimes difficult tasks of providing infrastructure to the peninsula handling all kinds of engineering works, from piers to land the stores, to roads and railways to distribute the equipment to the various parts of the line. A large part of their work on Gallipoli was the location and development of water supply across this dry peninsula. They dug wells, constructed reservoirs and provided miles of piping to connect both with watering points across the dry landscape. They were also responsible for all the land based signalling, with a number of signal companies established to ensure that messages were relayed with as little delay as possible.It was not long after the first exchanges that it was clear that some of the siege techniques of the Western Front would need to be employed and the Royal Engineers provided the expertise for the mining work that took the underground war to the Turkish army. It was not long thereafter that the Allied miners had a more or less complete mastery of the underground war.The demands of the front line fighting man meant that the Royal Engineers needed to rapidly become masters of their environment as they carried on their construction work throughout the campaign, and were ultimately to carry a large responsibility for providing the means to evacuate the soldiers and stores when an end to the campaign was called.The book looks at the structure of the Royal Engineers at the beginning of the Great War and the way in which in which they sat within the structure of the MEF and how their work was controlled at Brigade, Division and Corps level. This book is organised to show the work of the Royal Engineers, and the units of the Australian and New Zealand armies, at each stage of the campaign, putting their work in the context of the major offensives of the campaign. It also addresses briefly the work of the engineers on the nearby islands, such as Imbros, where GHQ was based, and Lemnos where engineers worked on everything from harbours to hospitals.

Автор: David Raw
Название: Gallipoli : The Egerton Diaries and papers: The papers and diaries of Major-General Granville Egerton CB Commanding 52nd Lowland Division at Gallipoli, June-September, 1915
ISBN: 1912390841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912390847
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Описание: As Commander of 52nd Division, Granville Egerton kept a detailed long daily diary of the events, conditions and personalities at Gallipoli between June and September, 1915.He is highly critical of the decisions and tactics of the campaign as well as of his C-in-C Sir Ian Hamilton and Corps Commander Aylmer Hunter-Weston. ‘Ian Hamilton can’t help himself from being a liar’.The daily long diary was sent by King’s Messenger to his mother in Bournemouth. It gives a vivid picture of life on the Peninsula. The long diary is now deposited in the National Archives.He also details the impact of the Gretna Railway disaster before embarkation.‘I landed at Cape Helles Gallipoli Peninsula in Command of the 52nd Lowland Division on June 21st, 1915, and left it on September 16th, 1915. I landed a weak division of 10,900 men, and within three weeks, had lost 4,800 killed and wounded, and about 1,000 sick – of the officers over 70% were hors de combat during this short period’.He also kept a short diary which details the deteriorating state of his own health, exacerbated by local conditions. The short diaries are in the National Library of Scotland.In addition Egerton supplied evidence to the Dardanelles Commission and kept post-war Journals with an evaluation of the campaign and the views of his own circle of friends. He records a critical conversation with Kitchener before embarkation. The papers and journals are in the National Library of Scotland and in the Imperial War Museum.The author reproduces the diaries and papers in full with detailed notes and analysis in chronological order.