Author: Percy Charles Dryden MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
History of the I/1st Hants Royal Horse Artillery During the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: Percy Charles Dryden MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
History of the 1/1st Hants Royal Horse Artillery During the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: Percy Charles Dryden MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibrarySubject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Subject Catalog of the World War I Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The British Army and the First World War
Author: Ian BeckettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
Author: G.W.L. NicholsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773597905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force
Author: Stephen Lee McFarlandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.