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G. H. Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer) by "G.S.O." is a work by Frank Fox, a journalist, writer and activist who actively encouraged warning others about the dangers of a major War in Europe in the early 20th century.
Author : Frank Fox
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
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G. H. Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer) by "G.S.O." is a work by Frank Fox, a journalist, writer and activist who actively encouraged warning others about the dangers of a major War in Europe in the early 20th century.
Author : Frank Fox
Publisher : PHILIP ALLAN & CO.,
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
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G. H. Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer) That fantastic life at G.H.Q., so greatly detached from the normal—the life of the men whose words had power to send Armies into and out of action, to give this Division rest and surcease from the agony of the struggle, to assign to that Division the stress of a new effort; the men into whose hands the nation poured millions without stint and at whose call the whole world moved to spin or dig or forge—will it be of interest now to recall some of its memories, to attempt an intimate picture of its routine? Fantastic the life was truly. One man of imagination, who had done his work in the line so well as to win a reputation for great courage and administrative ability, and had carried through with a quiet skill and a simple dutifulness the responsibilities of the "small family" of a regiment, found, when he was transferred to G.H.Q., that the sense of responsibility was too great for his temperament. He was not a very important cog of the machine. But the feeling that the motion which his hand started set going so great a series of actions got on his nerves to the extent that he could neither sleep nor eat with comfort, nor decide the simplest matter without torturing doubt as to whether it were right or wrong. He "moved on" within a few days. Fortunately that sense of vision was rare. The average man was content to "carry on" with his task with what good judgment Heaven gave him, deciding as the established routine, or the common-sense shift of a new emergency, dictated. But looking back, reflecting on all the woeful results that might have sprung from a careless blunder, from too great haste, from too deliberate hesitation, from over fear or over confidence, it is to be seen how fantastic, how abnormal was the life centred in that little walled town of Montreuil, the focus of a spider's web of wires, at one end of which were the soldiers in their trenches, at the other the workers of the world at their benches. Yet we ate, drank, slept, played a little and talked, very much as if we were workers in some commercial house, directing coffee from a plantation to a warehouse and then to a breakfast table, instead of dealing in blood and tears, drawing without stint on human life and human hope so that the idea of Right and Liberty might be saved in the world. It is well that Imagination went to sleep, or was lacking. For so the work could be done and the war directed to its safe conclusion. But a record of the life we lived seems now, in retrospect, almost indecorous. It is as if we should not have munched food, talked trivialities, while before our eyes and under our hands was played out the greatest tragedy Man has known; as if it would have been more fitting if we had gone from uneasy couches, tight-lipped and anxious, to our desks, haunted always by a sense of doom.
Author : G.S.O. – Major Sir Frank Fox O.B.E.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786255308
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Account of the work at G.H.Q. by an officer (Australian Sir Frank Fox) who served there attached to the Quartermaster-General’s Branch. “His account of the conditions in which a junior administrative staff officer lived & worked is valuable, especially as there are few records of this sort.” - Falls
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Dan Todman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0826467288
The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of ground. Writers, notably Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, provided unforgettable images of the idiocy and tragedy of the war. Yet this vision of the war is at best a partial one, the war only achieving its status as the worst of wars in the last thirty years. At the time, the war aroused emotions of pride and patriotism. Not everyone involved remembered the war only for its miseries. The generals were often highly professional and indeed won the war in 1918. In this original and challenging book, Dan Todman shows views of the war have changed over the last ninety years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.
Author : Frank Fox
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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The story of life at British General Headquarters, at Montreuil, during the First World War.
Author : Frank Fox
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Cemeteries
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Author : Jim Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107039614
Haig's Intelligence confronts a perennial question about the British on the Western Front: why did they think they were winning?
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1931
Category : United States
ISBN :
A concise and unique reference work central to any serious examination of the Army2s involvement in World War I. Reproduced in 5 volumes, the original volume numbering and consecutive pagination remain unchanged to assist researchers using citations to the first printing
Author : Frank 1874-1960 Fox
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781013812002
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