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Bristol and the great war, 1914-1919, edited by g.f. stone
Bristol and the Great War, 1914-19
Bristol and the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: George Frederick Stone
Publisher: Bristol : [s.n.]
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher: Bristol : [s.n.]
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Bristol in the Great War
Author: Jacqueline Wadsworth
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473838665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
When war was declared in 1914 the people of Bristol erupted in patriotic excitement - but what was it like when the cheering died down?This book tells the city's unique story during those grinding years, when women risked their lives filling shells with mustard gas, factories turned out chocolate and cigarettes for the troops, Shirehampton's fields were full of war horses, and Filton's nascent aeroplane industry took off. Also described are the lives of the women who waited at home for news of their men at the Front, the long shop queues and blackouts, the bone-shaking military vehicles that rumbled past their homes, and the kindness shown to the traumatized refugees from Belgium.Jacqueline Wadsworth's extensive research brings Bristol's story to life using contemporary accounts and high-quality photographs, many of which have never been published before.As seen in The Bristol Post, Western Daily Press and Gazette Series.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473838665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
When war was declared in 1914 the people of Bristol erupted in patriotic excitement - but what was it like when the cheering died down?This book tells the city's unique story during those grinding years, when women risked their lives filling shells with mustard gas, factories turned out chocolate and cigarettes for the troops, Shirehampton's fields were full of war horses, and Filton's nascent aeroplane industry took off. Also described are the lives of the women who waited at home for news of their men at the Front, the long shop queues and blackouts, the bone-shaking military vehicles that rumbled past their homes, and the kindness shown to the traumatized refugees from Belgium.Jacqueline Wadsworth's extensive research brings Bristol's story to life using contemporary accounts and high-quality photographs, many of which have never been published before.As seen in The Bristol Post, Western Daily Press and Gazette Series.
Bristol and the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Charles Wells
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Publisher:
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Catalogue of the War Office Library
Author: Great Britain. War Office. Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
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British Military Service Tribunals, 1916–18
Author: James McDermott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847797938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist ‘old duffers’. To most of the men who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a remorseless grinding machine. This work, utilising a rare surviving set of Tribunal records, challenges both perspectives. Wielding unprecedented power yet acutely sensitive to the contradictions inherent in their task, the Tribunals were obliged, often at a conveyer belt’s pace, to make decisions that often determined the fate of men. That some of these decisions were capricious or even wrong is indisputable; the sparse historiography of the Tribunals has too often focused upon the idiosyncratic example while ignoring the wider, impact of imprecise legislation, government hand-washing and short-term military exigencies.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847797938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist ‘old duffers’. To most of the men who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a remorseless grinding machine. This work, utilising a rare surviving set of Tribunal records, challenges both perspectives. Wielding unprecedented power yet acutely sensitive to the contradictions inherent in their task, the Tribunals were obliged, often at a conveyer belt’s pace, to make decisions that often determined the fate of men. That some of these decisions were capricious or even wrong is indisputable; the sparse historiography of the Tribunals has too often focused upon the idiosyncratic example while ignoring the wider, impact of imprecise legislation, government hand-washing and short-term military exigencies.
British Archives and the Sources for the History of the World War
Author: Hubert Hall
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Bristol in the Great War
Author: Jacqueline Wadsworth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783036356
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Bristol were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through.
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ISBN: 9781783036356
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Bristol were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through.
The Last Great War
Author: Adrian Gregory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521450373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521450373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.