World War I
epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [Middlebrook, Martin]

As the morning drew to a close, the battlefield lost some of the noise and violence of the early, intense fighting. Where an attack had been successful, the troops rested ...
( Category: World War I December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-16 | Author:James Barr

17 Dara or Azrak? (15–21 November 1917) Lawrence reappeared, unexpectedly perhaps, in Aqaba on 26 November, having ridden non-stop for three days from Azraq. Almost immediately, he wrote up in ...
( Category: Great Britain December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Joe Power

Deptartment of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Clare Journal, 15 February 1917. A few months later, Bishop Fogarty addressed an audience in Birr, reminding them of his pastoral letter, saying: This ...
( Category: World War I December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Crossley

An idea of the work of paddle sweepers at this time can be given by quoting an account of an incident off Dunkirk in June 1917. Dunkirk was close to ...
( Category: Conventional December 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Tony Booth

Chapter 10 Raising the Dead Although Cammell Laird received several letters from funeral directors offering their services for the burial arrangements, many more enquiries came from people wanting to enter ...
( Category: Great Britain November 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Jack Sheldon

A quiet moment in the sunshine of August 1916 in Y Ravine. Notice that steel helmets have still not been issued at this point to men of RIR 119. Reserve ...
( Category: World War I November 4,2015 )
epub | | 2015-11-02 | Author:Jack Sheldon

British prisoners and weapons captured during the abortive attack on 3 September 1916. To begin with it was a somewhat different story in Thiepval, which was attacked simultaneously from the ...
( Category: World War I November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Anthony Saunders

Successful raiding party from the 6th Seaforth Highlanders who carried out a trench raid on the Railway Salient near Armentières on 15 September 1916. The board is chalked with ‘The ...
( Category: World War I October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:John Baxter

Uniform chic Meanwhile, in Paris, shrewd designers suggested to their all-too-suggestible clients that it was their duty to dress well, so long as their clothes included some acknowledgment of the ...
( Category: General October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-28 | Author:Gary

Seydlitz is launched, 30 March 1912. Therefore, the most economical cruising speed would be 12kts giving a range of 5,807nm. These values correspond to the trials draught. Vibrations were low ...
( Category: World War I September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Captain J.L. Hardy DSO MC

Chapter Ten As we walked through the town towards the station we could think of nothing but the wonderful way fortune had favoured us. We must succeed now, we thought. ...
( Category: World War I September 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Jack Sheldon

Major Kiesel 2nd Battalion Reserve Infantry Regiment 1555 6. “The relief turned out to be extremely awkward, because it was totally dark and the entire area was constantly under very ...
( Category: World War I September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:John Hamilton

As the first shell screamed towards us, nearly every man straightened himself and looked to see what would come of it. ’Twas beautifully ranged and landed right in our midst, ...
( Category: Strategy September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:John Hamilton

The place we were told to make headquarters of the Brigade turned out to be one of the worst in the Valley and was fairly swept with shrapnel and we ...
( Category: World War I September 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Bob Carruthers

A German position at Fromelles, pre-1915. Trenches such as these were frequently knee-deep in water. The conditions in the water-logged frontline trenches near Fromelles were appalling, as this photgraph from ...
( Category: World War I September 4,2015 )