The Fighting Territorials
Author : Percy Hurd
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
On War
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Book Description
Of No Earthly Use
Author : K. W. Mitchinson
Publisher : Helion
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914059957
Book Description
From the time of their official sanction the 2nd Line Territorial Force divisions suffered from the War Office's preferential treatment of the Kitchener formations.
The Territorial Peace
Author : Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107016215
Book Description
Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state development, he explains patterns of international conflict and democracy in the world over time.
Harrogate Terriers
Author : John Sheehan
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473868149
Book Description
Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces individual stories of tragedy and heroism, involving tradesmen, apprentices, lawyers, musicians, sportsmen, brothers, husbands and fathers from Harrogate and the West Riding. As such, it characterises the experience of the British Infantryman in the Great War.The Territorials of the 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment were the unsung heroes of the Great War. These Saturday Night Soldiers from York and the northern West Riding of Yorkshire went out to face the might of the German Army in April 1915. Through the hot summer and dark winter that followed, they stopped bullets at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and choked on Phosgene gas at Ypres. Caught in the carnage of the notorious first day on the Somme, the West Yorkshire Territorials were held up by General Haig as convenient scapegoats for his tactical failure, only for the 1/5th Battalion to prove him wrong and redeem itself as an attacking force at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, and then again at Passchendaele in 1917. In the last year of the war, the battalion helped fight a rear-guard action on the Menin Road, and was effectively wiped out at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, only to be re-constituted in time to take part in the bloody advances at Cambrai and Valenciennes, which helped bring the conflict to an end.
The Territorial Force at War, 1914-16
Author : W. Mitchinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1137451610
Book Description
William Mitchinson analyses the role and performance of the Territorial Force during the first two years of World War I. The study looks at the way the force was staffed and commanded, its relationship with the Regular Army and the War Office, and how most of its 1st Line divisions managed to retain and promote their local identities.
Terriers in India
Author : Peter Stanley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2022-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781804510513
Book Description
Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War. Astonishingly, it has taken a century for a book on them to be written. The Territorials - citizen soldiers, members of a force formed before the war for home defence - never expected to serve abroad, but volunteered for 'Imperial Service' at Lord Kitchener's request. Instead of going to France, in 1914 they went to India, to release Regulars for the front. The Territorials - 'Terriers' - became responsible at first for garrison duty, not trusted to fight in Mesopotamia or on the North-West Frontier. Gradually, they gained the skill to be sent to war, and most of the 41 Territorial battalions sent to India saw active service, in Mesopotamia, in Frontier campaigns, in Aden and in the Third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919. (Territorials were retained in India for up to a year after the Armistice, unhappily.) Terriers in India, based on the abundant but almost untouched holdings of county archives and regimental museums mainly in southern English counties, tells their story for the first time. It shows how novice citizen soldiers learned to act as sahibs, how they responded to India and its people (often sensitively) and took part in the most dramatic upheaval in British India since the 1857 Mutiny. Terriers in India is a rich mix of social and military history, ranging from cantonment bungalows, bazaars and brothels to sangers on the Frontier and tragic actions on the Tigris; battles in which the Terriers played a full part.
The Other End of the Spear
Author : John J. Mcgrath
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1105056155
Book Description
This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)
An Intimate War
Author : Mike Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199387982
Book Description
An Intimate War tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghani- stan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses - the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the Taliban, and the post-2001 nation-building era. Yet, as experienced by local inhabitants, the Helmand conflict is a perennial one, involving the same individuals, families and groups, and driven by the same arguments over land, water and power. This book - based on both military and re- search experience in Helmand and 150 inter- views in Pashto - offers a very different view of Helmand from those in the media. It demonstrates how outsiders have most often misunderstood the ongoing struggle in Helmand and how, in doing so, they have exacerbated the conflict, perpetuated it and made it more violent - precisely the opposite of what was intended when their interventions were launched. Mike Martin's oral history of Helmand under- scores the absolute imperative of understanding the highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal conflict in much of the 'third' world.
Fighting to the End
Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199892709
Book Description
The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end
