Vimy Letters From The Front
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Vimy Letters From The Front
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Author : William McNaught
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Vimy Letters From The Front written by William McNaught and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Letters from the front are an excellent and highly entertaining personal guide to the birth and growth of Canadian nationalism out of that victory at Vimy. Sources abounded for this project, including a memorable conversation with a group of elderly German tourists on the steps of the Vimy Monument.
Letters To Vimy
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Author : Orland French
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2017-01-25
Letters To Vimy written by Orland French and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with History categories.
Dear Uncle Oscar… I’m going to put a note on the back of our book to explain to readers what our correspondence inside is all about. It goes like this... A hundred years ago a German shell dropped on Pte. Oscar French on Vimy Ridge and ended his adventures in the First World War. A century later author Orland French replies to Oscar’s real letters home to his mother and tells him, in his own sardonic style, how the world turned out after the horrific War to End All Wars. Letters to Vimy is an excellent and highly entertaining personal guide to the birth and growth of Canadian nationalism out of that victory at Vimy. Sources abounded for this project, including a memorable conversation with a group of elderly German tourists on the steps of the Vimy Monument. Your nephew in history, Orland French
A Fine View Of The Show
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Author : Hector Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009
A Fine View Of The Show written by Hector Jackson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
A first-hand glimpse into daily life on the Western Front that is riveting, informative and poignant. Hector Jackson left his family's British Columbia farm in 1915 to fight in World War I. Recounted through 130 descriptive letters, Jackson's idealistic adventure descended into the gritty reality of trench warfare when, as a newly-commissioned officer, he was catapulted into the Battle of the Somme. Against the odds, Jackson survived many of the great battles of the Western Front, to be awarded the Military Cross for gallantry under fire at Passchendaele and rise to the rank of captain. Gassed just ten days before the war ended, he joined the river of wounded flowing from the battlefield. Photographs illustrate the unique story told in these letters, from Jackson's farm life, through military training, to the grim existence of the Western Front. Andrew Jackson's introduction and historical narrative, along with helpful notes, weave these letters into a dramatic chronicle.
Letters From The Front
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Author : Andrew Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Letters From The Front written by Andrew Roberts and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with History categories.
Similar to Letters From Iwo Jima and All Quiet On The Western Front, this book tells the story of young men from many nations thrown into the crucible of war, fighting not just to survive, but to understand what was happening to them and their comrades. It tells it in the words of the soldiers themselves, in their letters home. A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love, Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at Imperial War Museums 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.
Laurence Attwell S Letters From The Front
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Author : W. A. Attwell
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2005-09-19
Laurence Attwell S Letters From The Front written by W. A. Attwell and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-19 with History categories.
Lawrence Attwell was one of the lucky ones, surviving over four years of trench warfare on the Western Front. During that time he had two short periods of leave.In his extraordinary series of letters to his family he graphically recounts what life was like for the ordinary infantry soldier on active duty. We learn of the conditions, the discipline, the courage, the fear and the reactions of the writer and his fellows. Attwell was in the Prince of Wales Own, Civil Service Rifles.
The Void Of War
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Author : Reginald Farrer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
The Void Of War written by Reginald Farrer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with History categories.
Letters From The Front
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Author : Andrew Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Letters From The Front written by Andrew Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Military history categories.
"Collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from the front line of war to their loved ones at home."--Back cover.
Letters From The Front Letters From The Front Pamphlets Edited By Charles Lyons Foster Supplemented By William Smith Duthie
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Author : Canadian Bank of Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Letters From The Front Letters From The Front Pamphlets Edited By Charles Lyons Foster Supplemented By William Smith Duthie written by Canadian Bank of Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The 2 volumes in this work provide a detailed historical record of the services provided to the war effort in the Great War by employees of all branches of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Volume 1 contains letters from various Canadian Bank of Commerce staff members while they served with the allied forces engaged in the war, and a list of all 1701 staff members who enlisted to fight, including the 258 who gave their lives. Volume 2 was created to augment the previous volume by providing more detailed biographical information of the staff members whose names, ranks, dates of enlistment, and branches were listed in that first volume.
Vimy
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Author : Pierre Berton
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-11-19
Vimy written by Pierre Berton and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with History categories.
The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada “has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history” (Maclean’s). On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000 men in the attempt. Yet these magnificent colonial troops did so in a morning at the cost of only 10,000 casualties. The author recounts this remarkable feat of arms with both pace and style. He has gathered many personal accounts from soldiers who fought at Vimy. He describes the commanders and the men, the organization and the training, and above all notes the thorough preparation for the attack from which the British General Staff could have learned much. The action is placed within the context both of the Battle of Arras, of which this attack was part, and as a milestone in the development of Canada as a nation. “This wonderful book brings to life the amazing men who came across the Atlantic nearly a century ago and won a famous victory which helped change a nation forever . . . the wonderful prose of Pierre Berton is all from the heart and you should share in it.” —War History Online “The cinematic writing plunks the reader in the midst of the actual battle, and a judicious use of quotes from soldiers’ diaries and letters helps provide a ground-level perspective.” —Quill & Quire
German Students War Letters
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Author : Philipp Witkop
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-03-16
German Students War Letters written by Philipp Witkop and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies in order to participate in World War I, these letters reveal the struggles and hardships that all soldiers face. The stark brutality and surrealism of war are revealed as young men from Germany describe their bitter combat and occasional camaraderie with soldiers from many nations, including France, Great Britain, and Russia. Like its companion volume, War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, these letters were carefully selected for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. "Should these letters help towards the establishment of justice and better understanding between nations," the editor reflects in his introduction, "their deaths will not have been in vain." This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.