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VCs of the First World War: Somme 1916
Häftad, 2011
122 kr
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The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the …
VCs of the First World War: Passchendaele 1917
Häftad, 2012
185 kr
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Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of desolation and misery on a quite bewildering …
VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs
Häftad, 2013
125 kr
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The Naval VCs is a complete record of almost fifty men who won the Victoria Cross while serving in the Royal Navy during the First World War. They include the conflict’s youngest and oldest winners in operations ranging from the Atlantic to the coast of Africa and from the Straits of Otranto to the …
VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli
Häftad, 2010
152 kr
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The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month …
VCs of the First World War: 1914
Häftad, 2011
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During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for gallantry. In a series of biographies, Gerald Gliddon examines the men and the dramatic events that led to the …
VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915
Av Peter F. Batchelor, Christopher Matson
Häftad, 2011
122 kr
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The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding …
VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917
Häftad, 2012
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For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to …
VCs of the First World War: Cambrai 1917
Häftad, 2012
115 kr
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Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation of a great victory. A tank crewman …
VCs of the First World War: Spring Offensive 1918
Häftad, 2013
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At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main opponent, Germany, had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. On March 21 1918, the German Army launched a massive assault on the Western Front, …
VCs of the First World War: The Air VCs
Av Peter G. Cooksley, Peter F. Batchelor
Häftad, 2014
129 kr
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Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Of these, four were posthumous awards and all but one of the total were to officers. Some of …
