The British Home Front and the First World War, Hew Strachan

Автор: Black Nicholas
Название: British Naval Staff in the First World War
ISBN: 1843836556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843836551
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Reassesses the role of the British Naval Staff during the First World War, challenging many widely-held views, and casting much new light on controversial issues and individuals.

Автор: Buckey Christopher
Название: Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty Germany and the Home Fleet 1896-1914
ISBN: 1682475816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682475812
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy`s war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907, the Home Fleet combined an active core of powerful armoured warships with a unification of the various reserve divisions of warships previously under the control of the three Royal Navy home port commands.

Автор: Hew Strachan
Название: The British Home Front and the First World War
ISBN: 1316515494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316515495
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front, coming under enemy attack from the sea and increasingly the air. However, the home front also conveyed the war's impact on almost every aspect of British life, economic, social and domestic. In the fullest account to-date, leading historians show how the war blurred the division between what was military and not, and how it made many conscious of their national identities for the first time. They reveal how its impact changed Britain for ever, transforming the monarchy, promoting systematic cabinet government, and prompting state intervention in a country which prided itself on its liberalism and its support for free trade. In many respects we still live with the consequences.

Автор: Marble
Название: British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War
ISBN: 1138270466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138270466
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In the popular imagination, the battle fields of the Western Front were dominated by the machine gun. Yet soldiers at the time were clear that artillery - not machine guns - dictated the nature, tactics and strategy of the conflict. Only in the last months of the war when the Allies had amassed sufficient numbers of artillery and learned how to use it in an integrated and coherent manner was the stalemate broken and war ended. In this lucid and prize-winning study, the steady development of artillery, and the growing realisation of its primacy within the British Expeditionary Force is charted and analysed. Through an examination of British and Dominion forces operating on the Western Front, the book looks at how tactical and operational changes affected the overall strategy. Chapters cover the role of artillery in supporting infantry attacks, counter-battery work, artillery in defence, training and command and staff arrangements. In line with the 'learning curve' thesis, the work concludes that despite many setbacks and missed opportunities, by 1918 the Royal Artillery had developed effective and coordinated tactics to overcome the defensive advantages of trench warfare that had mired the Western Front in bloody stalemate for the previous three years.

Автор: Spin, Contact
Название: Over the West Front: Two Accounts of British Pilots During the First World War in Europe
ISBN: 0857060473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857060471
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Цена: 25750.00 T
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Описание: Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry
by "Spin"

Cavalry of the Clouds
by "Contact"

Air Combat over the trenches by those who fought

The first hand accounts of the experiences of men in time of war always make fascinating reading. Their stories are, of course, always as varied as the individuals concerned and the eras to which they belonged, whether they were soldiers, sailors or airmen, the branch of their service, their nationalities, the conflict in which they were participants and in which theatre they fought. This is what makes military history so fascinating. Sometimes many men report a common experience that abided for decades. Occasionally we hear, across time, the voices of a few notable men who fought their own war in their own special way and once their time had past history would never know their like again. That is especially true of the pilots of the First World war. The machinery of flight was a new technology. The aircraft were raw, basic, flimsy and unproven machines and both they and the brave men who piloted them were fighting their first conflict while learning and evolving their skills and equipment, quite literally, as they fought and died. The dogfight days of the early biplanes, triplanes and early mono winged fighters would be short, but their images together with those of the iconic airships which they ultimately destroyed will remain indelibly imprinted on the history of conflict and the development of man's mastery of the air. Heroes to a man, these trailblazers were almost always young, carefree, well educated and modest young men full of the joy of living and commitment to their aircraft and to flying. This special Leonaur edition contains the writings of two such men from the Royal Air Force, written anonymously during wartime, which take the reader back to those dangerous and epic delays of aerial combat over the muddy trenches of the Western Front in Europe during the Great War. Available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket for collectors.

Автор: Spencer Jones
Название: Courage without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915
ISBN: 1912174111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912174119
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defences of the Western Front. Yet the insistent demands of coalition warfare required immediate and repeated action. The result was a year of disappointments, setbacks and costly fighting. The very difficulties of 1915 make it especially worthy of study. This book offers a fresh and insightful evaluation of the experience of the British Army through a series of thematic essays examining the strategic, operational, tactical and logistical problems that shaped the fighting. Within these pages are assessments of broad topics such as the performance of British high command, the ‘Shell Scandal’ and the development of the Royal Flying Corps, as well as a thorough selection of battle studies which cast new light on engagements such as Neuve Chapelle, Second Ypres, Festubert and Loos. Special attention is placed on the composite nature of the British Army, with chapters examining Canadian, Indian, Regular and Territorial unit experience. Taken as a whole these essays offer an important reassessment of a forgotten year of the war, and illustrate the tremendous difficulties faced by the British Army as it endured a bloody learning curve in difficult conditions. This book will be of great interest to anyone who studies the First World War, and of particular value to those who seek a greater understanding of the British Army of the era.

Автор: Geoffrey Jackson
Название: The Empire on the Western Front: The British 62nd and Canadian 4th Divisions in Battle
ISBN: 0774860146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774860147
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions. The Empire on the Western Front focuses on the development of two units, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division and the Canadian 4th Division, to show how the British Expeditionary Force rose to this challenge. By turning the spotlight on army formation and operations at the divisional level, Jackson calls into question existing accounts that emphasize the differences between the imperial and dominion armies.

Автор: Sanders Marble
Название: British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: `The Infantry cannot do with a gun less`
ISBN: 1409411109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409411109
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Providing a systematic investigation into the evolving role of the artillery in the British Expeditionary Force, this study looks at how tactical and operational changes affected the overall Allied strategy. In line with the `learning curve` thesis, it argues that despite many setbacks and missed opportunities.

Автор: Benyon Neville
Название: Bishop Gwynne: Deputy Chaplain-General to the British Armies on the Western Front During the First World War
ISBN: 1910294608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910294604
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The celebrated General Sir Herbert Plumer once referred to BEF Deputy Chaplain General Llewellyn Henry Gwynne (1863–1957) “as the man who did most to win the war.” This new study of Gwynne’s philosophy and work explores his formative years including his time at St John’s Theological College, Highbury. It also sheds light on his pre-war experiences as a young curate and priest in the industrial midlands, subsequent Sudan missionary work, and First World War service during which he achieved the rank of major general responsible to commanders of the four British armies on the Western Front. The army chaplain general’s conferences, over which Gwynne presided, looked forward to a time when hostilities would end and the clergy could return to their“calling” of ministering congregations. From there they would lay foundations for a better world than that consumed by the upheaval of war. These lively wartime forums, during which the spiritual and temporal aspects of current conflict and anticipated peace were discussed and debated, had much in common with Diocesan Synodical meetings. So much so that they could be considered the guiding body of a true “Diocese of the Western Front”.Based on ground-breaking archival research, including original agendas and meeting minutes, this volume contributes to our understanding of the vital role of Anglican chaplains during the years 1914–18 whilst re-evaluating the military career and legacy of a venerated cleric.

Автор: Geoffrey Jackson
Название: The Empire on the Western Front: The British 62nd and Canadian 4th Divisions in Battle
ISBN: 0774860154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774860154
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions. The Empire on the Western Front focuses on the development of two units, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division and the Canadian 4th Division, to show how the British Expeditionary Force rose to this challenge. By turning the spotlight on army formation and operations at the divisional level, Jackson calls into question existing accounts that emphasize the differences between the imperial and dominion armies.

Автор: Grayzel
Название: At Home and under Fire
ISBN: 1107679419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107679412
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book studies British civilians` experiences of, and responses to, air raids during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British response to future wars and helped redefine a gendered understanding of how civilians should respond to modern war.

Название: 21st Century Corbett
ISBN: 1682471683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682471685
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Описание: Presents a collection of essays demonstrating the critical role Sir Julian Corbett played in the development of maritime strategy and sea power theory in the early twentieth century. His close connections with Mahan and Sims helped reinforce the trans-Atlantic axis of education and thinking on sea power.