Book Description
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of the typical American soldier during World War II. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of the major campaigns of the war.
Author : Martin Windrow
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1986
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9780863132995
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of the typical American soldier during World War II. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of the major campaigns of the war.
Author : Emily Brewer
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445637952
From Ammo to Zig-Zag, many of the words we use today were invented in World War 1. They provide a unique insight into the experience of the war, and the inventiveness and humour of ordinary soldiers.
Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445669889
A hundred years have now passed since Britain sent hundreds of thousands of men to fight and to die on the Western Front and elsewhere. This is the perfect introduction to the life and experiences of the ordinary British soldier.
Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1785007645
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Author : Fergus Mackain
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445658305
A unique visual perspective of life in the trenches on the Western Front from the forgotten soldier-artist and Somme veteran Private Fergus Mackain who served in France 1916 to 1917.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Warships
ISBN :
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1408810077
For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN :
Author : J.C. Sharpe
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 5872388918
Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Warships
ISBN :