Author: S & N PublishingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781861506733
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bond of Sacrifice Volume 1 - August to December 1914
Author: S & N PublishingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781861506733
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Bond of Sacrifice
Author: L. A. ClutterbuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Angels in the Trenches
Author: Leo RuickbiePublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472139585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309. As Arthur Conan Doyle explained, 'The deaths occurring in almost every family in the land brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the life after death. People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible with the dear ones they had lost.' From the Angel of Mons to the popular boom in spiritualism as the horrors of industrialised warfare reaped their terrible harvest, the paranormal - and its use in propaganda - was one of the key aspects of the First World War. Angels in the Trenches takes us from defining moments, such as the Angel of Mons on the Front Line, to spirit communication on the Home Front, often involving the great and the good of the period, such as aristocrat Dame Edith Lyttelton, founder of the War Refugees Committee, and the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University. We see here people at every level of society struggling to come to terms with the ferocity and terror of the war, and their own losses: soldiers looking for miracles on the battlefield; parents searching for lost sons in the séance room. It is a human story of people forced to look beyond the apparent certainties of the everyday - and this book follows them on that journey.
The Bond of Sacrifice
Author: Lewis Augustus ClutterbuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Catalogue of the War Office Library
Author: Great Britain. War Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front August 1914- April 1915
Author: Peter Old FieldPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783030437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The research for this book commenced in 1988 while the author was serving in the Army. In the years since, numerous sources have been consulted, but career imperatives left insufficient time to complete the project until retirement from the military. In the past the author spent many days on the First and Second World War battlefields wondering precisely where the Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out.??The book is designed for the armchair reader as much as the battlefield visitor. A detailed account of each VC action sets it in the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close, where the VCs were won. Photographs of the battle sites illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each VC recipient and photographs. The biographies cover every aspect of their lives 'warts and all' - parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial or commemoration. There is also a host of other information, much published for the first time. Some fascinating characters emerge, with numerous links to many famous people and events.??As featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire and in the Daily Record, Gloucestershire Echo, Canterbury Times and Barking & Dagenham Post.
The Publisher
Author: British Books
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Toward Combined Arms Warfare
Author: Jonathan Mallory HousePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915834
Category : Armies
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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