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Surgeon In Arms [Illustrated Edition]
By Captain R. J. Manion M.C.. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos A vivid anecdotal memoir…
of the Western front from a member of the hard fighting Canadian Corps around the time of their victory at Vimy Ridge in 1917. Filled with the sounds and sensations of the trenches it makes for a gripping read.Captain R. J. Manion M.C. spent much of 1915 as a volunteer doctor in a French Army Red Cross unit, before enlisting for service with his native Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1916. He served in military hospitals and base camps before being assigned as the Medical Officer of the 21st Battalion in early 1917. His service only lasted six months in the front lines before being invalided home, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the battle of Vimy Ridge.Tragedy At Honda [Illustrated Edition]
By Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Hans Christian Adamson. 2015
Includes 6 maps and 14 photos illustrations“Known to seafarers as the Devil’s Jaw, Point Honda has lured ships to its…
dangerous rocks on the coast of California for centuries, but its worst disaster occurred on 8 September 1923. That night nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran into Honda’s fog-wrapped reefs. Part of Destroyer Squadron 11, the ships were making a fast run from San Francisco to their homeport of San Diego at a steady 20 knots as fog closed around them. The captain of the flagship Delphy ordered a change of course, but due to navigational errors and unusual currents caused by an earthquake in Japan the previous week, she ran aground and eight destroyers followed her. The authors recreate in dramatic hour-by-hour detail what happened, including the heroic efforts to rescue men and ships. In addition to presenting a full picture of the tragedy, they cover the subsequent investigations, which became a media sensation. In conclusion, the authors suggest that the cause of the tragedy lay in the interpretation of the differences that exist between the classic concepts of naval regulations and the stark realism of the unwritten code of destroyer doctrine to follow the leader. Admiral Nimitz’s introduction sets the scene for this action-filled account of America’s greatest peacetime naval tragedy in history. Only Pearl Harbor in 1941 would do more damage.”-Print ed.Toward The Flame: A War Diary (classic Reprint)
By Hervey Allen. 2015
Chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-Eighth Division in the summer of 1918 through the eyes of Lieutenant Hervey Allen and…
men, made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, who saw extensive action on the Western Front. The story begins with the 28th marching inland from the French coast and ends with their participation in the disastrous battle for the village of Fismette. Allen was a talented observer, and the men with whom he served emerge as well-rounded characters against the horrific backdrop of the war.Gun Fodder - Four Years Of War [Illustrated Edition]
By Major A. Hamilton Gibbs R.A.. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosMemoirs of an officer, brother…
of the war correspondent, Philip Gibbs, who enlisted as a trooper in 9th Lancers, was commissioned into the Royal Artillery at the end of 1914, then served in Salonika and on the Western front.Field-Marshal Earl Haig
By Colonel John Buchan, Brigadier John Charteris. 2015
Includes 30 maps, plans and illustrations.A detailed personal account of Earl Haig, the man and his principle campaigns, by his…
closest colleague and confidante. The renowned novelist Buchan, who served under Chateris during the First World War, provides a foreword.“General Charteris had the privilege of serving with Lord Haig in India and at Aldershot, and for the whole of the Great War with the exception of the last two months. During the Battle of the Somme I had the privilege of serving under General Charteris. When, in 1921, the Official History was taking shape, Sir J. E. Edmonds asked Lord Haig whom he would like to go through it on his behalf, with special reference to the work of the I Corps, the answer was: “Send it to Charteris. He knows as much about it as I do.”This book is therefore a study of Lord Haig’s career by one who was himself a sharer in its most momentous stages. It is also a study of a famous soldier by one who brings to the task not only a knowledge of war, but the understanding born of a deep affection. A great man, especially a great man of action, is apt to appear before the world as a combination of abstract powers and virtues, impressive like a statue set up in some public place, but a little remote from our common life...Future historians will discuss every detail of his campaigns, and every aspect of his genius. But in the meantime the world has cause to be grateful, I think, to General Charteris for providing these mémoires pour servir —a personal narrative of how Lord Haig appeared to a colleague and a friend.”-Foreword.“The most competent and authoritative biography of Haig published to date, written by one who was closely associated with him. The book throws much light on Allied strategy as well as on the problem of the high command.”- William L. Langer – Foreign Affairs magazineExperiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition]
By Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosMajor-General Sir Charles Edward Callwell…
KCB was an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Army, who served in the artillery, as an intelligence officer, and as a staff officer and commander during the Second Boer War. As a noted strategist and well known in military circles, he was recalled [aka 'dug-out'] to the colours during the First World War, as part of the rapid expansion of the British Army from a small regular army to the mass volunteer army. He served as Director of Operations & Intelligence during the Gallipoli campaign and also on military missions to Russia and in staff posts in the Ministry of Munitions. In this memoir he recounts his experiences as a witness to the many successes, a few of the disasters and the unstinting effort of the high command of the British War effort during the First World War.Development Of Tactics - World War I [Illustrated Edition]
By Harry Bell, Lt.-Gen. Wilhelm Balck. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosLt.-Gen. Wilhelm Balck was a…
Prussian General, whose service during the First World War with the 51st Division gained him the highest German honour, the coveted Pour le Mérite. Balck was also a noted military writer, in this most valuable study the author discusses the development of tactics within the German Army during World War I. The treatise was considered so valuable that it was immediately translated into English by the U.S. General Service School and widely read. In his native Germany Black's works greatly influenced post-war German thinking about tactics and strategy in the military circles that would become the officer corps of the Wehrmacht.Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front [Illustrated Edition]
By E. W. Hornung. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosE. W. Hornung was a…
noted English author who wrote around the turn of the Twentieth Century, his most famous creation being the Gentleman Thief, Raffles. During the later years of the First World War (1917-1918), the author visited the military camps of the British army. He was particularly struck by the character of the soldiers in their moments of brief repose out of the firing line and decided to write a semi-fictionalized account of the camps. This volume 'Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front' is that account; gripping, emotive and lucid, Hornung's clear style and vivid eye of detail recreates the British troops that fought in Flanders Fields.2/ Auckland, 1918;: Being A Partial Record Of The War Service In France Of The 2/ Auckland Regiment During The Great War [Illustrated Edition]
By Colonel Sir Stephen Shepherd Allen KBE CMG DSO. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosColonel Sir Stephen Allen recounts,…
with justified pride the history of the 2nd Battalion of the Auckland Regiment, 2/Auckland for short, during the last year of the war. The 2nd Battalion formed part of the New Zealand Division and had seen much action since arriving in France in 1916; at the Battles of the Somme, Fleubaix, Messines and at Third Ypres. However the signal services of the 2/Auckland in 1918 are fully deserving of this separate tome; during the German Spring Offensives they were thrown into the line to stem the enemy advance and were the first troops to make a morale raising counterattack at La Signy Farm. As the German Army started to crack in the summer of 1918, 2/Auckland where among the foremost pursuers; at Welsh Ridge, Le Quesnoy.Smith-Dorrien [Illustrated Edition]
By Brigadier Colin R. Ballard. 2015
Includes 17 maps and the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosIn this…
volume, Brigadier Ballard, provides a detailed biography and defence of his former commander, General Horace Smith-Dorrien.'With the outbreak of war Smith-Dorrien, who was a veteran of the 1879 Battle of Isandhlwana and the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, was given command of II Corps of Sir John French's British Expeditionary Force (BEF). He was praised for his conduct during the Battles of Mons and Le Cateau in August 1914, and was given command of Second Army from December 1914 to April 1915.Smith-Dorrien fell foul of Sir John French, whom he little respected, during the Second Battle of Ypres, when he recommended a strategic withdrawal closer to Ypres, feeling that nothing short of a major counter-offensive was likely to regain the ground taken by the Germans during their offensive.French disagreed, dismissing Smith-Dorrien home to England upon the pretext of ill-health, and replacing him with Herbert Plumer, who ironically also recommended a withdrawal upon taking up his position; French accepted Plumer's advice.'-Michael DuffyLove Of An Unknown Soldier: Found In A Dug-Out [Illustrated Edition]
By Anonymous. 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos'I think of you, as…
I shall think of you to the end, if the end comes. I do not want you less. I want you more perhaps, only not so selfishly. I realize that death does not finish all things. Love lives on. There are other worlds--there must be so many other worlds--in which I shall surely meet you if I miss you in this one. That I, so poor and human and puny, should be capable of this largeness of spirit, gives me confidence that God's scheme for us must be greater than we have guessed. He cannot be smaller than the souls He has created. You may not need me in this existence. We may have met too late to be much to each other. But I cannot think love is wasted.'The Love of an Unknown Soldier collects the intimate letters written by an anonymous World War I officer in Paris to his American love. Found by a young British soldier at the end of the war, the documents had been wedged in the wall of an abandoned gun dug-out, secreted away, and never mailed by the original author. There was no indication of the name or unit of the writer, presumed dead, nor did he mention the name of the girl he loved so dearly. Since tracing the letters' owner proved impossible, the young officer sent them to the publisher John Lane in an attempt to bring the letters to the attention of the American woman for whom the letters were written. The lady was never found, however, and the romantic soldier remains a mystery today.First published in 1916, this touching correspondence provides a clear depiction of the emotional realities and devastation of war.'- Print ed.Jews and Gentiles in the Early Jesus Movement
By Abel Mordechai Bibliowicz. 2013
This volume offers new insights on Jewish-Gentile relations and the evolution of belief in the early Jesus movement, suggesting that…
the New Testament reflects the early stages of a Gentile challenge to the authority and legitimacy of the descendants of Jesus' disciples and first followers as the exclusive guardians and interpreters of his legacy.Jewish Ethics in a Post-Madoff World
By Moses Pava. 2011
Moses Pava explores new and alternative ways of relating to Jewish texts and concepts. In doing so, he invents a…
nuanced, flexible, and sufficiently sensitive vocabulary to conduct productive ethical dialogues, both within and between communities.Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah
By Marla Segol. 2012
The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled…
to establish even the most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic tradition as a whole.The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory
By Vicky Long. 2011
The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers. It explores how trade unions, employers,…
doctors and the government reconfigured the relationship between health, productivity and the factory over the course of the twentieth century within a broader political, industrial and social context.Faith under Fire
By Edward Madigan. 2011
After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in…
an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history.Logistics and Politics in the Middle East
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. 2011
An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more…
intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today.Muslims and Jews in America
By Reza Aslan, Aaron J. Hahn Tapper. 2011
This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these…
two communities interact with one another in the American context. Each essay discusses a different episode from the recent twentieth and current twenty-first century American milieu that links these two groups together.This report documents the development of trench warfare on the Western Front during the First World War and the technological…
experiments conducted by the British Expeditionary Force to overcome the loss of strategic mobility. Reviews the work of E. D. Swinton, Churchill, Haig, J. F. C. Fuller, B. H. Liddell Hart and Guderian with regard to the early development of tank and mechanized operations in W.W.I.Incomplete Victory: General Allenby And Mission Command In Palestine, 1917-1918
By Lcdr Geronimo Nu o. 2015
The Palestine Campaign of the First World War exhibited a fighting style that brought with it various challenges in mission…
command. While General Allenby, commanding the Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), gained several victories in the early stages of the campaign, he did not comprehensively defeat the Turkish forces in Palestine. He drove them away from their defensive line, but they escaped, avoided destruction, and retreated north to re-establish a defense and engage the EEF at later date. This thesis argues that General Allenby did not achieve the great successes at the battles of Beersheba, Gaza, Sheria, and the pursuit of Turkish forces that ended with Allenby's capture of Jerusalem. Instead, Allenby had to learn how to succeed in Palestine to finally destroy the armies of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine at the battle of Megiddo in September 1918. The research in this study highlights the mission command challenges in Allenby's early campaigns and how he learned to overcome them and adapt his tactics to achieve complete victory at the battle of Megiddo. This thesis will use the tenets of mission command, consisting preparation, combined arms, prioritization of resources, and communication, to examine General Allenby's Palestine campaign. Mission command, both a function of war and a philosophy of leadership comprises one of the key facets of military thought that leaders must consider in order to achieve complete victory.