Author: Michael Craster
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781594104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards and told in their own words and a classic of military writing. Contrary to the popular view of that war, this was a period of movement as the Allies sought first to block the German's apparently irresistible march on Paris, then to push them back to the Belgian border until finally both sides engaged in the 'Race for the Sea' in an attempt to find and exploit the open flank. It was a phase that included the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne and finally and most devastatingly the First Battle of Ypres.The book is based on the diary that was kept by the Battalion Second in Command, Major George (subsequently General the Lord) Jeffreys, known to everyone as 'Ma'. Described by Harold Macmillan as one of the greatest of commanding officers, he was one of only three officers who went to war with the Battalion in August 1914 who survived with it to the end of the year. Supplemented on occasion by the letters and diaries of his brother officers and others, it provides a very complete picture of those turbulent days.
'Fifteen Rounds a Minute'
Author: Michael Craster
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781594104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards and told in their own words and a classic of military writing. Contrary to the popular view of that war, this was a period of movement as the Allies sought first to block the German's apparently irresistible march on Paris, then to push them back to the Belgian border until finally both sides engaged in the 'Race for the Sea' in an attempt to find and exploit the open flank. It was a phase that included the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne and finally and most devastatingly the First Battle of Ypres.The book is based on the diary that was kept by the Battalion Second in Command, Major George (subsequently General the Lord) Jeffreys, known to everyone as 'Ma'. Described by Harold Macmillan as one of the greatest of commanding officers, he was one of only three officers who went to war with the Battalion in August 1914 who survived with it to the end of the year. Supplemented on occasion by the letters and diaries of his brother officers and others, it provides a very complete picture of those turbulent days.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781594104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards and told in their own words and a classic of military writing. Contrary to the popular view of that war, this was a period of movement as the Allies sought first to block the German's apparently irresistible march on Paris, then to push them back to the Belgian border until finally both sides engaged in the 'Race for the Sea' in an attempt to find and exploit the open flank. It was a phase that included the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne and finally and most devastatingly the First Battle of Ypres.The book is based on the diary that was kept by the Battalion Second in Command, Major George (subsequently General the Lord) Jeffreys, known to everyone as 'Ma'. Described by Harold Macmillan as one of the greatest of commanding officers, he was one of only three officers who went to war with the Battalion in August 1914 who survived with it to the end of the year. Supplemented on occasion by the letters and diaries of his brother officers and others, it provides a very complete picture of those turbulent days.
Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases
Author:
Publisher: London : G. Routledge
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: London : G. Routledge
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Editor & Publisher
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
Author: United States Naval Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Armor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The magazine of mobile warfare.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The magazine of mobile warfare.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.
International Military Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
Alaska Ranger Training
Author: LT. COL. DAVID K. SWENDIMAN
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387926969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Alaska Ranger training Field Manual Exploring discovering and sharing the beauty mystery and wildness of Alaska and Hawaii.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387926969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Alaska Ranger training Field Manual Exploring discovering and sharing the beauty mystery and wildness of Alaska and Hawaii.
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Out of the Ashes
Author: Dick Couch
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250026830
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
When terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the country leaving men, women and children dead or mutilated, the President executes an emergency order to bring back Op-Center and thwart a renegade Saudi Prince with ambitions of controlling the world's oil supply by manipulating America into attacking Syria, launching a war against Iran, and igniting a sleeper cell to attack the American homeland.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250026830
Category : Espionage
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
When terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the country leaving men, women and children dead or mutilated, the President executes an emergency order to bring back Op-Center and thwart a renegade Saudi Prince with ambitions of controlling the world's oil supply by manipulating America into attacking Syria, launching a war against Iran, and igniting a sleeper cell to attack the American homeland.