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The conclusion of W.T Massey's Middle Eastern theatre trilogy
The final book in Massey's trilogy concerns the drive through
Palestine into Syria, the conquest of Damascus and the harrying of
the defeated Turkish and German forces as their broken armies
retreated northwards towards and beyond Aleppo and the borders of
Turkey itself. In the pages of this excellent account-written as
part history, part first hand account by one who was there-the
reader will find many familiar and famous figures. Here are
Allenby, Lawrence, Feisal and others. Renowned regiments pass
through its pages-the stalwart Yeomanry, the indomitable and
cheerful Londoners, the dashing Australian Light Horse as well as
the early fighter and bomber crews of the emerging air force. An
essential book for those who value the impression of a campaign
told with the immediacy of first hand knowledge.
From the St. Lawrence to the Yser With the 1st Canadian
Brigade
by Frederic C. Curry
"Crumps"-the Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went
by Louis Keen
Two first hand accounts in one value edition
When the First World War broke out, the view of the British Empire
by those who built it, colonised it and spread its influence over
the globe was that of a strong closely bonded family held together
by common origin and purpose. There could be little doubt that the
peoples of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other countries would
quickly rally to a flag they considered their own as readily as
they had done in the past-particularly during the war in South
Africa just a decade and a half previously. These young,
enthusiastic, mostly citizen armies were comprised in the main of
the flower of the country's young manhood. In Canada these first
came from the members of the Canadian Militia, though such was the
demand to 'do ones bit' that this was quickly absorbed by
quantities of volunteers from the community at large eager to take
up arms in the service of the 'mother country.' These two first
accounts concern men of the First Canadians who join, train, sail
to Europe and throw themselves into the early battles with the
German Army in Belgium and France. They make absorbing reading as
perspectives of the infantry war from the Canadian viewpoint and
represent great value in this special two-in-one edition. Available
in softcover and hardback with dustwrapper.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume III covers July 1915 through May 1917 on the
Western Front, from the first major Allied offensive to the German
assault on Verdun and the Allied drive on the Somme. American
journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was
literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He
wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as
editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described
by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as
writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).
World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from
1914 to 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war
to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70
million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making
it one of the largest wars in history. This series of Eight volumes
provides year by year analysis of the war that resulted in the
death of more than 17 million deaths worldwide.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume II covers August 1914 through July 1915 on
the Western Front, from the German advance on Paris to the first
use of aeroplanes and zeppelins. American journalist and historian
FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New
York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured
extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the
two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous
Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the
10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).
The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of
pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through
memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from
soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions
workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight
into the sacrifices men and women made for their country.
Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and
survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and
battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and
fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants
alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive
perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.
The first two books in an excellent trilogy of the Great War in the
Middle East
W. T Massey was the foremost accredited journalist reporting on
behalf of the London newspapers covering the Great War in the
Middle East as it was fought against the Ottoman Turkish Empire,
its German ally and the tribes of the region who threw in their lot
with them. He possessed a deeply held conviction that this theatre
of operations was far more important than those who only concerned
themselves with the conflict in Europe believed. He was
particularly aware of the hardships suffered by British and
Colonial troops serving in difficult climates and over unrelenting
terrain and he became, through his long association with the entire
campaign, a champion of those who fought in it. This volume in the
two book Leonaur edition-which covers the complete conflict from
the war in the Western Desert against the Senussi to the actions at
Aleppo and beyond-begins appropriately with the first book, 'The
Desert Campaigns' and follows with the campaign that culminated in
Allenby's historic walk into Jerusalem in 'How Jerusalem was Won.'
Part history, part first hand account this is a valuable history
imbued with the insight of one who was there.
An 'Old Contemptible' recounts the campaign of 1914
At the outbreak of the First World War, units of the British
regular army-the B. E. F-were despatched to the continent to assist
the French in an attempt to stem the tide of the advancing Imperial
German Army as it marched inexorably towards Paris. The enemy
viewed the 'Tommies' as 'that contemptible little army.' In that
way peculiar to the British the insult became a byword for courage
and honour as the highly trained and motivated soldiers in khaki
demonstrated just what a contemptible little army could do.
However, this was a war of attrition and despite the
'contemptibles' magnificent performance the 'grey horde' could not
initially be halted. What followed was the memorable retreat from
Mons. The author of this book was a subaltern officer serving in
one of the county regiments of the B. E. F and chose as his title
for this book the proudly worn designation 'Contemptible.' Although
the book was written under a pseudonym it is widely believed that
the writer was Arnold Gyde who served with the South Staffordshire
Regiment and was one of the first British soldiers to set foot on
the continent. Although the account of this vital aspect of the
opening months of the conflict is presented in a 'factional' style
it is clearly based on the author's first hand experiences.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
An intimate portrait of war
There are books which report the experience of war and then there
are a few that enable the reader to step into another's life to
share war, both in the mind and the flesh. Red Dust is such a book.
Written by a trooper of the Australian Light Horse on campaign in
the Middle East during the Great War against the Ottoman Turkish
empire it tells of 'mateship, ' hard campaigning and brutal
conflict-often hand to hand and described in relentless detail. It
also allows the reader to share the thoughts of this ordinary man-a
man of his time and his country-as he struggles to rationalise the
horror and futility of war, his feelings on the loss of comrades,
the embryonic sense of otherness from the Imperial motherland and
the loss of youth. The action takes place principally in the Jordon
Valley in Palestine-a grinding stalemate of a phase in what was
often one of fluid manoeuvre. Here the troops experienced fiercely
hot days, freezing nights, scorpions and spiders and the ever
present threat of the tenacious and respected enemy. Red Dust is a
rare book in every sense and will be sure to reward all those
interested in the First World War and fine writing.
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central
Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and
extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of the world war
seemed poised to transform the world, but the form of that
transformation was unclear and violently contested in the streets
and societies of Munich and Budapest in 1919. The political
perceptions of contemporaries, framed by gender stereotypes and
antisemitism, reveal the sense of living history, of 'fighting the
world revolution', which was shared by residents of the two cities.
In 1919, both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries were
focused on shaping the emerging new order according to their own
worldview. By examining the narratives of these Central European
revolutions in their transnational context, Eliza Ablovatski helps
answer the question of why so many Germans and Hungarians chose to
use their new political power for violence and repression.
World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from
1914 to 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war
to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70
million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making
it one of the largest wars in history. This series of Eight volumes
provides year by year analysis of the war that resulted in the
death of more than 17 million deaths worldwide.
A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels
When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to
leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted
him immediately was the potential to combine his military service
with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he found himself
one of a select group of motorcycle despatch riders within the 5th
Division of the 'Contemptible Little Army' that went to France and
Belgium to halt the overwhelming numerical superiority of the
advancing German Army. This book, an account of his experiences in
the early months of the war, tells the story of a conflict of fluid
manoeuvre and dogged retreat. Together with congested roads filled
with military traffic and refugees, the ever present threat of
artillery barrage and changing front lines the author had to
constantly be aware of the presence of the deadly Uhlans-mounted
German Lancers-who were always ready to pitch horseflesh against
horsepower.
Two first accounts by early aviators
This special Leonaur 'good value' edition contains two accounts of
the early days of powered flight. The first book, written just
before the outbreak of the First World War, describes in depth the
training of French military pilots up to the point where they are
qualified. It contains much of historical interest and the process
is explained, in considerable detail, from the trainee pilot's
viewpoint as he grappled to master his machine. His numerous errors
and how the aircraft performed as they were made are elaborated.
The author came into contact with several types of aircraft and he
describes the characteristics, performance and mechanics of each.
So this book provides essential insights into the practicalities of
being a fighter pilot in the imminent conflict. The second work is
by a British pilot who was fully engaged in the air war over
France. He was shot down and captured by the 'Bosch, ' he escaped
and was again captured, and he underwent many other adventures
before finally returning to his homeland. Accounts of pilots and
aviation from the pioneer days of flying are comparatively few in
number and these two short first hand narratives, essential reading
for students of the subject, would have been unlikely to see
republication as individual books.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
"Lean men, brown men, men from overseas,
Men from all the outer world; shy and ill at ease
" There were Canadian Mounties, American cowboys, Arctic explorers,
adventurers, rogues, big game hunters and sportsmen. There were
famous men like Cherry Kearton, the naturalist and explorer and the
grand old man of Africa-Frederick Selous himself. All these men had
come together under the Union Flag to do battle against colonial
Imperial Germany in East Africa. They came under the command of
Driscoll of Driscoll's Scouts who performed with renown during the
Boer War. These were the men of the 25th Royal Fusiliers-The Legion
of Frontiersmen-and their battlegrounds were to be the great plains
of Africa rich in wildlife and elemental danger. This is their
story through the years of the Great War told by one of their own
officers in vivid detail. It is a story of campaigns and hardship
which would be equal to the best of them and lay many a 'lean,
brown man' in a shallow grave in the red earth before it was
concluded.
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike
anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents
at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis,
and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually
became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look
at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation
of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic
sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an
astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica
of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos,
and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a
century later. Volume I covers June through October 1914, from the
causes of the war-including how the local matter of the
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria grew into a
global conflagration and the various declarations of war among the
world powers-through the early battles on the Western Front.
American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY
(1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892
through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his
works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American
History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt
(1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous
Authors (1914).
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