Author: George John YounghusbandPublisher: London : H. Jenkins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War
Author: George John YounghusbandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Staff and the Staff College
Author: Alfred Reade Godwin-AustenPublisher: London, Constable
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A War Imagined
Author: Samuel HynesPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446467929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different. Samuel Hynes examines the process of that transformation. He explores a vast cultural mosaic comprising novels and poetry, music and theatre, journalism, paintings, films, parliamentary debates, public monuments, sartorial fashions, personal diaries and letters. Told in rich detail, this penetrating account shatters much of the received wisdom about the First World War. It shows how English culture adapted itself to the needs of killing, how our stereotypes of the war gradually took shape and how the nations thought and imagination were profoundly and irretrievably changed.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Journal of the Royal United Service Institution
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The Times History of the War
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Survey
Author: The Churchman
Author: The Muse in Arms
Author: Edward Bolland OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The March to Kandahar
Author: Rodney AtwoodPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844689476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The story of the British commander who led a three-hundred-mile march from Kabul to Kandahar and became the toast of Victorian England. This book examines the role of Frederick Roberts in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, culminating in his famous march in 1880 with ten thousand British and Indian soldiers, covering three hundred miles in twenty-three days, from Kabul to Kandahar to defeat the Afghan army of Ayub Khan, pretender to the Amirship of Kabul. The march made Roberts one of late Victorian England’s great military heroes, partly because of the achievement itself, partly because the victory restored British prestige after defeat, and finally because of Roberts’ astute use of the press to puff his victory. This overcame the earlier damage done to his reputation by the political storm that followed his hanging of over eighty Afghans in revenge for the massacre of a British envoy and his escort. It enabled the liberal Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon, to extract his forces from an Afghan imbroglio with prestige restored and an emir on the Afghan throne who for thirty-nine years maintained friendship with British India. Roberts (or Bobs as he was known) subsequently advanced to command the Indian Army, working closely with future viceroys to influence Indian defense policy on the North-West Frontier, and being hymned by Rudyard Kipling, poet of empire. His bestselling autobiography, Forty-One Years in India, established his image before the British public and he remains one of Britain’s best known, if least understood, military figures