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 Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 
 Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 Author: Prit Buttar Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military ISBN: 978 1782006480 2014 Language: English Pages: 473 Format: PDF Size: 6,3 MB Although the myriad of alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century proved to be one of the primary triggers for the outbreak of the First World War, much of the actual fighting between these three nations has been largely forgotten in the West. Whilst battles such as Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele have been inscribed deeply on the public consciousness, with the exception of perhaps Tannenberg, the conflicts in the East do not hold the same recognition.
Europe's Last Summer. Who Started the Great War in 1914?
 Author: Fromkin David Europe's Last Summer. Who Started the Great War in 1914? New York: Random House, Alfred A Knopf Division 2004 Pages: 350 Format: pdf Size: 106 mb Language: English Author David Fromkin provides an intelligently written and deeply researched of the political situation and diplomatic relations that unfolded in Europe in the summer of 1914. There are many key and novel insights in Fromkin’s book. One is the conclusion that Germany sought war with Russia out of fear that Russia’s growing economic and military power coupled with its vast population would allow it to surpass Germany in a short period of time. Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
 Author: Geoffrey Jukes The First World War: The War to End All Wars Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military ISBN: 1782002804 2013 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 364 Size: 18 Mb Language: English Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with a foreword by Professor Hew Strachan, covers the fighting on all fronts, from Flanders to Tannenberg and from Italy to Palestine. A series of moving extracts from personal letters, diaries and journals bring to life the experiences of soldiers and civilians caught up in the war.
From Imperial Splendour to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War
 Author: Nicolas Wolz From Imperial Splendour to Internment: The German Navy in the First World War Seaforth Publishing ISBN: 1848322283 2015 Format: EPUB + PDF (conv) Size: 4,8 МБ + 11,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 320
The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War
 Author: Daniel George Ridley-Kitts The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War The History Press 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 288 Size: 4 Mb Language: English
Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II
 Author: Major Charles D. Melson Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 1482039311 2013 Format: PDF Size: 5,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 36 Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II is a narrative of the activities of the defense battalions during the Pacific War. Official records and appropriate historical works were used in compiling this chronicle, which is published for the information of those interested in the history of the USMC. This book is one in a series devoted to U.S. Marines in the World War II.
Camouflage: The History of Concealment & Deception in War
 Author: Guy Hartcup Camouflage: The History of Concealment & Deception in War Charles Scribner's Sons 1980 Format: PDF Pages: 166 Language: English Size: 18.3 MB While concealment has been a vital requirement for hunting, fighting and protection since earliest days, the use of camouflage as deception purposes came of age in the First World War. The growing use of aircraft was a factor no doubt as the author of this fascinating study concludes. The inventiveness and improvisation required suited the British temperament well. Given that those individuals who particularly excel at creativity are often artists, scientist and engineers with a fine disregard for orthodox military practice there are plenty of examples of clashes with more conventional military thinkers and bureaucracy.
The Shadow war - 3rd Reich Series
 The Shadow war - 3rd Reich Series Time-Life Books Author:Time-Life Books 1991 Language:English Format:pdf Size:37,5 Mb Although the history of German military spying extends back before the time of Frederick the Great in the eighteenth century, the agency Canaris was taking over was only fifteen years old. Its roots lay in the turbulent autumn days of 1918 when the provisional Reichswehr, the Weimar's defense force, and the Freikorps, volunteer paramilitary units that sprang up following Germany's defeat in World War I, responded to the disorder by purging their ranks of Communist spies and left-wing revolutionaries...
Weapons and Technology of World War I
 Author: Paul Dowswell Weapons and Technology of World War I (20th Century Perspectives) Heinemann Library 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 85.2 MB This book examines the changes in weapons and tactics that impacted the way war was waged during World War I.
Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I
 Author: John S. Haller Jr. Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I outhern Illinois University Press 2011 Pages: 288 Format:pdf Language : English Size: 10mb In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries figure prominently in this history of the military ambulance, which focuses mainly on British and American technological advancements. Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Philippines Insurrection, then climaxes with the trench warfare that defined World War I. The operative word is "challenges" of medical care and evacuation because while some things learned in a conflict are carried into the next, too often, the spasms of war force its participants to repeat the errors of the past before acquiring much needed insight. More than a history of medical evacuation systems and vehicles, this exhaustively researched and richly illustrated volume tells a fascinating story, giving readers a unique perspective of the changing nature of warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932
 Author: Patrick O. Cohrs The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932 The Cambridge University Press 2006 ISBN: 0521853532 Format: PDF Size: 5,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 708 This is a highly original and revisionist analysis of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler. Patrick Cohrs argues that this order was not founded at Versailles but rather through the first 'real' peace settlements after World War I - the London reparations settlement of 1924 and the Locarno security pact of 1925. Crucially, both fostered Germany's integration into a fledgling transatlantic peace system, thus laying the only realistic foundations for European stability. What proved decisive was that key decision-makers drew lessons from the 'Great War' and Versailles' shortcomings. Yet Cohrs also re-appraises why they could not sustain the new order, master its gravest crisis - the Great Depression - and prevent Nazism's onslaught. Despite this ultimate failure, he concludes that the 'unfinished peace' of the 1920s prefigured the terms on which a more durable peace could be founded after 1945.
The "Baby Killers": German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War
 The "Baby Killers": German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War Author: Thomas Fegan Pen & Sword Military 2013 ISBN: 978-1781592038 Pages: 191 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 13 MB Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers’ triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaiser’s Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk from sudden death and destruction.In the first section of The ‘Baby Killers’ Thomas Fegan charts the precise chronology of the air raids on Britain in this most thorough and fascinating work. From the start-point of the doom-laden prophecies of HG Wells and others, he describes the development of the German threat and the desperate search for answers to it. He analyses public reaction and assesses the effectiveness of the campaign as it progressed from airships to Gotha heavy bombers and, later, ‘Giants’.The second part of this superbly researched book features a gazetteer to the places bombed. The extent of the list, which includes Edinburgh, Hull and Greater Manchester, will almost certainly surprise most readers. Helpfully there are also comprehensive lists of memorials and relevant museums. The ‘Baby Killers’ provides a chilling insight into an aspect of The Great War which is all too often overlooked. Yet, at the time, these raids, while modest compared with those of the Second World War Blitz, shook national morale and instilled great fear and outrage. This is an important and highly readable work.
The Germans at Thiepval (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Jack Sheldon The Germans at Thiepval Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 6 Mb Language: English Ninety years after the Battle of the Somme was fought, visitors continue to flock in very large numbers to the massive Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval, site of a bitter three-month struggle during the summer of 1916. This book explains in detail how, from the autumn of 1914 onwards, the German defenders turned this key feature into a virtually impregnable position, from which they were able for weeks on end to repulse every attempt to capture it.
Hostile Skies - A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I
 Author: James J. Hudson Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I Syracuse University Press 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 380 Language: English Size: 48 MB The single best treatment of the American Air Service in World War I. From April to November 1918, the American Air Service grew from a poorly equipped, unorganized branch of the U.S. Expeditionary Forces to a fighting unit equal to its opponent in every way. Hostile Skies details the actual battle experiences of the men and boys who made up the service squadrons at the front.
The Seafarers - The Dreadnoughts
 Author: Collective The Seafarers - The Dreadnoughts Time-Life Books 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 25.2 MB "The Dreadnoughts," a volume in "The Seafarers" series put together by Time-Life, begins with the review of the British fleet at Spithead in 1897 and ends with the aftermath of the Battle of Jutland (known in Germany as the Battle of the Skagerrak). This was the largest naval engagement of World War I and the only one to involve battleships on a large scale. Fought May 31-June 1 1916 in the North Sea, the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, commanded by Admiral John Jellicoe, faced the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer. Knowing that the Battle of Jutland is the climax of this volume puts the rest of this look at the Dreadnoughts in perspective. The lessons of the Battle of Tsushima during the war between Russia and Japan in 1905, where long-range fire decided the outcome, were not lost on the British Admiralty. The result was the creation of the H.M.S. "Dreadnought," a radical design that heralded the start of an epic naval arms race of battleships between Great Britain and Germany, the United States and Japan over the first four decades of the 20th century. Although she never fired her guns in battle and her only action during World War I was to ram and sink a German U-boat in the North Sea, "Dreadnought" was a pivotal ship in naval history because she was so far advanced that every battleship that came after her embodied her basic concept. Before her, all battleships had a main battery of four guns. The "Dreadnought" had ten, although it could fire only eight in a broadside, and it was bigger and faster than any of her predecessors.
For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914--1917
 Author: E. W. Hermon For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914--1917 Preface Publishing ISBN: 1848090390 2009 Format: EPUB Size: 7,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 384 Lt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his King and country. He was shot through the heart, one bullet slicing through the papers in his top pocket, including the four-leaf clover his wife had given him for good luck. His final words to his Adjutant were 'Go on!' before he sank to his knees and died almost instantaneously. He was carried from the battlefield by his faithful soldier servant, Buxton, and now lies buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Roclincourt, three miles from Arras. This could have been the end of the story but he left a testament of his life and ideals in a unique and hitherto unknown and unpublished collection of long and detailed letters he wrote to his darling wife and his children, 'the Chugs'. Now, nearly a century after his death, he speaks to us of a past, less cynical life, where selflessness, honour, duty and courage were admired above all else. His own courage was officially recognised as he was mentioned in despatches three times and posthumously awarded the D.S.O. The letters have been transcribed and edited by Hermon's granddaughter Anne Nason with the guidance and historical advice of James Holland, the distinguished historian and writer. Peter Caddick-Adams, who works alongside Richard Holmes at Cranfield University, believes the letters to be unique in their candour and context since Hermon was Battalion Commander and thus his letters were not censored.
The World War I Tommy
 Author: Martin Windrow The World War I Tommy (The Soldier Through the Ages) Franklin Watts 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 38 Language: English Size: 63.7 MB World War I begins with a simplified version of how the war began in Europe, while World War II begins with the entry of the United States into the conflict. The terms Tommy and GI are defined in the respective volumes. The life of the soldier and military equipment are the main topics of the text. Specific battles are not discussed. Contain full-color illustrations on every page, and the dark shades give the books a somber appearance. Many of the illustrations have detailed captions that add a great deal to the text, with a glossary and a brief time-chart.
Rise Of The Tank: Armoured Vehicles And Their Use In The First World War
 Author: Michael Foley Rise Of The Tank: Armoured Vehicles And Their Use In The First World War Pen and Sword ISBN: 1783463937 2014 Format: EPUB + PDF (conv) Size: 4,1 МБ + 22,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 256 Rise of the Tank will be concentrated on the period of the development of the tank and its use in the First World War. This will appeal to those interested in new developments in war and those interested in the First World War generally. The book will be especially relevant due to the forthcoming centenary of the beginning of the war and for this reason it will be easy to promote the book as there will be a lot of media interest. Using the resources of the Imperial War Museum, The National Archives and the Tank Museum, Rise of the Tank will have lots of information available on the development and use of the early tanks as well as personal reminiscences of those who fought in them. The author, Michael Foley, has also collected a great deal of material from the period such as the First World War field service pocket book of a 2nd lieutenant of the 10th Tank Battalion and copies of various magazines of the period. He will have also be accessing First World War newspapers to find original and rare archive sources.
The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen
 Author: Floyd Phillips Gibbons The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen Bantam Books 1959 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 18 MB This well written book presents the thrilling story of Manfred von Richthofen, Germany s legendary "Red Baron" ace flyer of the First World War. Here is the classic, unforgettable account of the handsome, dashing fighter pilot who led the "Flying Circus" to one spectacular air victory after another. This heroic flyer is credited with shooting down 80 enemy planes, before he was himself killed in action. Includes excerpts from Richthofen's own accounts of the war, and letters to his mother, as well as interviews with some of the British flyers who survived being shot down by him.
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