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This manual lists the different types of fuzes fitted to both
British and German artillery and trench mortar projectiles and
details how 'safe' they are to handle.
'Irresistible . . . My aviation title of the year' Rowland White
'Stupendously brilliant . . . Completely addictive' James Holland
'The most explosive book about aircraft ever' Jim Moir, aka Vic
Reeves From the terror and exhilaration of First World War
dogfighting to the dark arts of modern air combat, here is an
enthralling ode to that most brutally exciting of machines: the
warplane. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes is a beautifully designed,
highly illustrated collection of the very best articles from
Hush-Kit - the world's leading alternative aviation online magazine
- combined with a heavy punch of new and exclusive pieces. It
contains a wealth of brilliant material, from Top 10 lists and
historical deep-dives to interviews with legendary fighter pilots
and expert analysis of weapons, tactics and technology. This
knowledge and impeccable research is balanced throughout with the
irreverent attitude, wicked satire and sharp eye for the
absurdities of the aeronautical world that have made the magazine
so popular with its readers. The book itself is also a stunning
object, featuring first-rate photography alongside original,
specially commissioned artwork. Inside it you will find: Interviews
with pilots of the F-14 Tomcat, the Mirage, the MiG-25, the English
Electric Lightning, the Rafale and the B-52 among others.
Comprehensive surveys including 'The Ultimate Biplane Fighters',
'10 Incredible Cancelled Military Aircraft' and 'Aviation Myths You
Shouldn't Believe'. Fascinating insights into obscure and
overlooked warplanes. Unbelievable accounts of the most bizarre
moments in aviation history. And much, much more.
Foreword by Dan Snow. Ten holders of the Victoria Cross, the
highest British military honour - for 'valour in the face of the
enemy' - are associated with the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent,
UK. They include the very first VC to be awarded (in the Crimea,
1856).
The story of this tragic loss, New Zealand's worst military
disaster, has not been told fully - until now In the annals of
military history, the World War I battle of Passchendaele is
recorded as New Zealand's worst military disaster. In just a few
short hours on a miserable Belgian morning over 1000 New Zealand
soldiers were killed and a further 2000 wounded in an attack on the
Germanfront line. In Massacre at Passchendaele, Glyn Harper brings
this ill-fated battle to life. The background to the situation
facing the Allies in October 1917 is outlined, and the first
assault on Passchendaele is described. This near-perfect military
operation brought the New Zealand soldiers much acclaim; however,
the second attack, on 12 October 1917, was anything but successful.
The rationale of the strategists, the concern of some officers and
the desperation of the fighting man are all recorded here.
Judicious use of diary extracts and recorded interviews transport
the reader to the centre of this harrowing event. An appendix lists
the names and details of the New Zealand soldiers killed at
Passchendaele, a tribute to their sacrifice. The military disaster
of Passchendaele was a pivotal event in New Zealand's history, and
a key influence on our attitudes to war in the following decades.
This book will help ensure that it remains an untold story no
longer.
The 9th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) was part
of Lord Kitchener's "New Army" made up initially of men from the
north midlands This is their story complete with pictures of many
of the men The 9th Battalion was not an elite force, but a group of
ordinary working men who felt compelled to serve their country but
found themselves in the most extra-ordinary military conflagration
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this
major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger
Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the
balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from
diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our
understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and
the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of
Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the
ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles
in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who
wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not
nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue.
Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity
to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.
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When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no
time in seizing the commercial opportunities presented by the
conflict. There was no radio or television. The only way in which
the British public could get war news was through newspapers and
magazines, many of which recorded rising readerships. Advertising
became a new science of sales, growing increasingly sophisticated
both in visual terms and in its psychological approach. This
collection of pictorial advertisements from the Great War reveals
how advertisers were given the opportunity to create new markets
for their products and how advertising reflected social change
during the course of the conflict. It covers a wide range of
products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones,
cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the
preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914
and 1918. Many advertisements were aimed at women, be it for
guard-dogs to protect them while their husbands were away, or soap
and skin cream for 'beauty on duty'. At the same time, men's
tailoring evolved to suit new conditions. Aquascutum advertised
'Officers' Waterproof Trench Coats' and one officer, writing in the
Times in December 1914, advised others to leave their swords behind
but to take their Burberry coat. Sandwiched between the formality
of the Victorian era and the hedonism of the 1920s, these charged
images provide unexpected sources of historical information,
affording an intimate glimpse into the emotional life of the nation
during the First World War.
Routledge Library Editions: Germans in Australia comprises three
previously out-of-print books by Jurgen Tampke and examines the
experiences of Germans in Australia, as explorers, migrants and
enemies. Germans made up the second-largest immigrant group in
Australia, and these books look at their roles in exploring the
country, helping develop the economy and society, and as the enemy
in the First World War.
'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our
understanding of the Great War' David Lammy'A genuinely
groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously
researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a
sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War
became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national struggle,
fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men
and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the
complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions,
which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to
what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is
revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the
experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white
people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.
Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and
its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At
the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for
some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly
inevitable. What the proverbial 'gown' feared communicated itself
to the surrounding 'town'. Terrible rumours were rife, that the
Germans would burn the university library and raise King's College
chapel to the ground, before firing shells along the tranquil
'Backs' of the River Cam until the weeping willows were just
blackened stumps. Frightened but determined, age-old 'town and
gown' rivalries were put aside as the city united against the
common enemy. This book tells Cambridge's fascinating story in the
grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students,
graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic
townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was
subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than
80,000 casualties from the Western Front.Though the university had
been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many
people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones,
decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the
rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions
imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led
to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of
death. The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of King's College, died
on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The
Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions.
If I should die Think only this of me That there's some corner of a
foreign field That is forever England.
Raymond Lodge's death from shell shrapnel in 1915 was unremarkable
in a war where many young men would die, but his father's response
to his untimely death was. Sir Oliver Lodge, physicist, scientist,
part inventor of the wireless telegraph and the spark plug, could
not let go of Raymond and went on a controversial and bizarre
journey into the realm of life after death. Following Sir Oliver's
journey, Dear Raymond, explores the untapped topic of spirituality
pre- and post-war, the influence that a national tragedy can have
on a nation's belief system and the long lasting effects from this
time that we still feel today. Alongside Lodge were some of the
great names of the day, as a member of the Ghost Club and the
Fabian Society he was in contact with famous men such as Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, who went on his own mission into the afterlife after
losing a son. Lodge's exploration and the controversy it exploded
opens our eyes to how modern religion has been shaped and changed
by the conflicts of the Twentieth Century.
In the midst of the First World War concern arose as to the virtues
of pursuing intoxication at a time of national emergency. As the
military front was supposedly let down by drinkers and shirkers at
home, attention quickly turned to British drinking practices.
Britain, it seemed, was under the duress of a widespread addiction
to boozing. When prohibition was deemed too extreme to contemplate,
and nationalisation too impractical, the government created an
organisation known as the Central Control Board (CCB). This body
soon set about reforming the drinking habits of a nation. Loved by
a few, but disliked by most, this group was responsible for the
most radical and unique experiment in alcohol control ever
conducted in Britain. The story of the CCB, how and why it was
formed, its history and its legacy upon the British war effort are
told within Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during
World War One.
"A rich study of the role of personal psychology in the shaping of
the new global order after World War I. So long as so much
political power is concentrated in one human mind, we are all at
the mercy of the next madman in the White House." -Gary J. Bass,
author of The Blood Telegram The notorious psychobiography of
Woodrow Wilson, rediscovered nearly a century after it was written
by Sigmund Freud and US diplomat William C. Bullitt, sheds new
light on how the mental health of a controversial American
president shaped world events. When the fate of millions rests on
the decisions of a mentally compromised leader, what can one person
do? Disillusioned by President Woodrow Wilson's destructive and
irrational handling of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, a US diplomat
named William C. Bullitt asked this very question. With the help of
his friend Sigmund Freud, Bullitt set out to write a psychological
analysis of the president. He gathered material from personal
archives and interviewed members of Wilson's inner circle. In The
Madman in the White House, Patrick Weil resurrects this forgotten
portrait of a troubled president. After two years of collaboration,
Bullitt and Freud signed off on a manuscript in April 1932. But the
book was not published until 1966, nearly thirty years after
Freud's death and only months before Bullitt's. The published
edition was heavily redacted, and by the time it was released, the
mystique of psychoanalysis had waned in popular culture and
Wilson's legacy was unassailable. The psychological study was
panned by critics, and Freud's descendants denied his involvement
in the project. For nearly a century, the mysterious, original
Bullitt and Freud manuscript remained hidden from the public. Then
in 2014, while browsing the archives of Yale University, Weil
happened upon the text. Based on his reading of the 1932
manuscript, Weil examines the significance of Bullitt and Freud's
findings and offers a major reassessment of the notorious
psychobiography. The result is a powerful warning about the
influence a single unbalanced personality can have on the course of
history.
**Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily
Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully
written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance'
GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES ______________________ By the end of the
First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million
British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost
forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders. In
The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the
extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives
to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable
lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss:
Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's
conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria;
desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the
campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the
exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of
thousands of bodies. It was a search that would span a century:
from the department set up to investigate the fate of missing
comrades in the war's aftermath, to the present day, when DNA
profiling continues to aid efforts to recover, identify and honour
these men. As the rest of the country found ways to repair and move
on, countless families were consumed by this mission, undertaking
arduous, often hopeless, journeys to discover what happened to
their husbands, brothers and sons. Giving prominence to the deep,
personal battles of those left behind, The Searchers brings the
legacy of war vividly to life in a testament to the bravery,
compassion and resilience of the human spirit. 'Remarkable' JOHN
CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'This is an outstanding book' LITERARY REVIEW
'Deeply moving' DAILY MAIL
Most people are familiar with the use of horses and their
often-heroic actions in the First World War, but what about camels,
monkeys and the mighty elephant? In this wonderfully illustrated
title, learn about how animals were trained and used, the role pets
had to play in the war, and the plight of animals on the farm, down
the mine and in the street. Although animals were used heavily on
the front line and in major battles such as the Somme, they also
had a role to play at home and, indeed, in almost every aspect of
wartime life. From their first use to how animals were treated when
the war ended, and including the involvement of the RSPCA and
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, this volume contains stories that
will shock, delight and move you.
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