Author: Michael Maton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975760710
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards to the Australian Army During the First World War: British orders & other awards
Author: Michael Maton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975760710
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975760710
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Borrowed Soldiers
Author: Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Report of the Adjutant-general of the Army to the Secretary of War, 1920/21
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Report of the Adjutant General of the Army to the Secretary of War
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans
Debrett's Handbook of Australia and New Zealand
Report of the Secretary of War to the President
Author: United States. War Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
British Concepts of Heroic "Gallantry" and the Sixties Transition
Author: Matthew J. Lord
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000382400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the sociocultural, political, military and international transitions of the supposed Sixties "cultural revolution." In so doing, it considers how a conservative, hierarchical and state-orientated concept both evolved and endured during a period of immense change in which traditional assumptions of deference to elites were increasingly challenged. Covering the period often defined as "The Long Sixties," from 1955–79, this study concentrates on four distinct transitions undergone by both state and non-state gallantry awards, including developments within the welfare state, class and gender discrimination, counterinsurgency and decolonisation. It ultimately sheds fresh light upon the importance of postwar decades to the continued evolution of concepts of gallantry and heroism in British culture using a range of underexplored government and media archives. It will be of interest to scholars, students and general researchers of heroism in modern Britain, the Sixties revolution, postwar military history and both the social and political evolution of British honours, decorations and medals.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000382400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the sociocultural, political, military and international transitions of the supposed Sixties "cultural revolution." In so doing, it considers how a conservative, hierarchical and state-orientated concept both evolved and endured during a period of immense change in which traditional assumptions of deference to elites were increasingly challenged. Covering the period often defined as "The Long Sixties," from 1955–79, this study concentrates on four distinct transitions undergone by both state and non-state gallantry awards, including developments within the welfare state, class and gender discrimination, counterinsurgency and decolonisation. It ultimately sheds fresh light upon the importance of postwar decades to the continued evolution of concepts of gallantry and heroism in British culture using a range of underexplored government and media archives. It will be of interest to scholars, students and general researchers of heroism in modern Britain, the Sixties revolution, postwar military history and both the social and political evolution of British honours, decorations and medals.