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Great War Tommy
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Author : Peter Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Great War Tommy written by Peter Doyle and has been published by Haynes Publishing UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with History categories.
The Great War continues to fascinate, and never more so as we approach 2014, the centenary year of its outbreak. There is an abiding fascination in the uniform and equipment of the British Great War soldier. What was it like to wear? What were puttees? What does a gas mask look like? How heavy was the equipment? How did you dig a trench? These and other typical questions will be answered in Haynes Manual style, providing a vivid insight into life during the Great War for the average “Tommy Atkins."
Great War Tommy Owners Workshop Manual
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Author : Peter Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Great War Tommy Owners Workshop Manual written by Peter Doyle and has been published by Haynes Publishing UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with History categories.
The Great War continues to fascinate more than 100 years after its outbreak. There is an abiding fascination in the uniform and equipment of the British Great War soldier. What was it like to wear? What were puttees? What does a gas mask look like? How heavy was the equipment? How did you dig a trench? These and other typical questions answered by Great War Tommy Owners' Workshop Manual in Haynes Manual style, providing a vivid insight into life during the Great War for the average ‘Tommy Atkins’.
Remembering Tommy
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Author : Peter Doyle
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Remembering Tommy written by Peter Doyle and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervour, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles in history. Yet often the picture is difficult to resolve for the reader. What was it like in the trenches? How did the soldier live, where did he sleep? What was it like to go over the top, and when he did, what did he carry with him? For many, the idea of trench life is hazy, and usually involves 'drowning in mud', in, as one writer put it, 'the pitiless misery' of Passchendaele. Recently, military historians have presented an alternative picture, a picture in which the hopelessness of the First World War is given new life and purpose. Remembering Tommy pays tribute to the real life British soldier of the Great War from the moment of joining up to their final homecoming. Using original artefacts in historic settings, the men and their words are brought to life. The uniforms they wore, the equipment they carried, the letters they wrote home, their personal possessions, mementos and photographs come together in a powerful tribute to the indomitable Tommy. Each one of these precious artefacts bears witness to the men who left them behind – allowing us to almost reach out and touch history.
What Tommy Took To War
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Author : Peter Doyle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-10
What Tommy Took To War written by Peter Doyle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, fascinating stories that bring the ordinary Tommy's experiences back to life with poignant immediacy. With striking original photography by Chris Foster and expert text from noted historian Peter Doyle, it looks in detail at fifty objects that Tommy would have had in his kit and which would have accompanied, equipped and comforted him during his wartime ordeals: official uniform, training manual, cigarettes, good-luck charms, sweethearts' letters, foreign phrasebook and myriad others. Together, these artefacts give us a serious and informative, yet touching and even occasionally amusing, picture of the ordinary soldier's experience of the First World War.
Tommy S War
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Author : Peter Doyle
language : en
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Tommy S War written by Peter Doyle and has been published by The Crowood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
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.
Knitting For Tommy
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Author : Lucinda Gosling
language : en
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Release Date : 2014
Knitting For Tommy written by Lucinda Gosling and has been published by History Press (SC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art and war categories.
During the First World War a knitting craze swept across Britain, as women everywhere wanted to 'kit out' their Tommies with socks, mittens, balaclavas, vests, jumpers and all manner of knitwear - some more graciously received than others! Millions of socks were sent from the home front to the fighting fronts in a bid to wage war on the dreaded 'trench foot' and thoughtful knitters would often tuck a love note or simple message into parcels to offer extra cheer to the soldier far from home. 'Knitting for Tommy' explores the knitting craze through magazine adverts, postcards, cartoons and photographs of the day, as well as offering a guide to kitting out your own First World War Tommy using original knitting patterns.
Love Tommy
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Author : Andrew Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Love Tommy written by Andrew Roberts and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with History categories.
A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and thoughtful reflections, eloquently revealing how, despite the passage of time, many experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars and battles. From the muddy trenches of the Somme to frozen ground of the Falklands to the heat and dust of Iraq, these letters are the ordinary soldier's testament to life on the front line.
Tommy S Ark
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Author : Richard van Emden
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Tommy S Ark written by Richard van Emden and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with History categories.
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.
Tommy S War A First World War Diary 1913 1918
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Author : Thomas Cairns Livingstone
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Tommy S War A First World War Diary 1913 1918 written by Thomas Cairns Livingstone and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with History categories.
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Tommy
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Tommy written by Richard Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Great Britain categories.
The British Army that fought in the Great War was the first largely literate and articulate army, producing not just the celebrated war poets but also the powerful writing of the ordinary soldier. Through these unique first-hand accounts - letters, diaries and memoirs - Holmes lets the soldiers speak for themselves, brilliantly interpreting their testimony to glimpse the truth of their lives. Charting the disintegration of the Western Front, from tidy hamlets and verdant forests to a landscape as 'bare as a man's hand', Tommy also looks at the development of the war, examining how advances in weaponry changed the role of the soldier on the ground, how trench warfare actually worked, and the evolving chain of command.