World War I
epub |eng | | Author:Bruno Cabanes

CHAPTER FIVE The Shadow of Defeat BY the third week of August, Joffre had seen his plans fall apart. He had thought that his army would be victorious and the ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Ferrell [Pierpont L. Stackpole]

Aisne-Marne II When the last of the German attacks failed one day after it began, July 15–16, the Allies and Americans began to force the German army back over a ...
( Category: World War I August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Eric Burns [Burns, Eric]

22 NINETEEN-ELEVEN, THE YEAR OF the treaty, was also the year when the Roosevelts celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Some of the family gathered for the occasion on December 2, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:Jon Cooksey

Captain Stephen Rhodes, the Commanding Officer of D Company. Captain Rhodes’ connection with the battalion began in 1903 and he would eventually command it on active service before going on ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Martin Hardie & Arthur K. Sabin [Hardie, Martin & Sabin, Arthur K.]

* * * * It is worth noting that, after Germany had set a value on Raemaeker’s head, her authorities did not disdain to employ his genius, when it suited ...
( Category: Printmaking July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-25 | Author:Mark Zuehlke

As the clock had ticked down to 1330, the attack deadline of 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade’s Brigadier Jock Spragge, a report from either the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division or 46th ...
( Category: World War I July 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-28 | Author:Wendy Holden [Holden, Wendy]

The general view was that if at any time the morale of the Army suffered a serious deterioration, there would be no option but to reintroduce the death penalty for ...
( Category: World War I July 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:Neiberg, Michael S.;

NOTE From Leon van der Essen in Charles Horne, ed., Source Records of the Great War, volume II (No place of publication: National Alumni, 1923), pp. 151–64. 3.2 The Historic ...
( Category: World War I July 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Roskill, Stephen

1 La Preparazione e le Prime Operazioni. (Eng. Trans., 1967.) 2 Letters C-in-C, Mediterranean to Admy. of 10th April and 20th June 1933. Adm. 116/3473. 3 AL of 3rd Oct. ...
( Category: Engineering July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-07 | Author:Edward J. Erickson [Erickson, Edward J.]

An Armenian volunteer. This photograph shows the signature kit of the Armenian nationalist committeeman: a modern military rifle, bayonet and several bandolier ammunition belts. By the spring of 1914, the ...
( Category: Historical July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Terence Zuber [Zuber, Terence]

8 Virton1 German 9 ID On 20 August the German V AK, on the right flank of the 5th Army, marched only 15km west to Etalle. On 21 August the ...
( Category: World War I July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael B. Barrett

TRAINING INTERLUDE The two German corps headquarters arrived as the 1st Army began its transition to the defensive. In addition, the 1st Army’s strength had fallen, and even after the ...
( Category: World War I July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paddy Griffith

Place & Date Zero hour Speed in phase Comments 1 2 3 Longueval 14 July ’16 3.25 am 3 3 Very successful, due to complex forming-up in No Man’s Land ...
( Category: Engineering July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alejandro de Quesada

This photograph of a marine (Seesoldat) in peacetime service dress shows the black leather Jäger-style shako dressed for parade with an enveloping black horsehair plume; the raised oval cockade in ...
( Category: World War I June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:David

SLR0015 The group of five 12-pounder guns mounted aft in the scout cruiser Forward. As a scout for the battle fleet she was expected to become involved in a close-quarter ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies June 28,2020 )