[PDF] This Side The Trenches eBook

Author : Andrew Robertshaw
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 178303369X

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This comprehensive, illustrated survey of the latest in battlefield archaeology reveals “intimate insight into the realities of life” during WWI (Current Archaeology). Modern methods of archaeological, historical, and forensic research have transformed our understanding of the Great War. In Digging the Trenches, battlefield archaeologists Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to this exciting new field and explore many of the remarkable projects that have been undertaken. Robertshaw and Kenyon show how archaeology can be used to reveal the positions of trenches, dugouts and other battlefield features, as well as what life on the Western Front was really like. They also show how individual soldiers are coming into focus as forensic investigation is so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fates discovered. “An excellent introduction to the subject…Digging the Trenches is essential reading.”—Gary Sheffield, Military Illustrated “What a splendid book this is.”—Neil Faulkner, Current Archaeology

Author : John McCutcheon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1561453749

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This moving book about peace, understanding, and unity is based on the real-life World War I event known as the Christmas Truce. It is cold and clear on Christmas Eve night in 1914. Suddenly, a strange sound pierces the darkness. Someone is singing a Christmas carol in German. Francis Tolliver and his fellow British soldiers are holed up in muddy trenches along the Western Front. Their enemies—German soldiers—lie in wait just across a field known as "No Man's Land." As the Germans' carol ends, Tolliver and the other British soldiers sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." Soon carols are being sung back and forth. Then a figure emerges in the dark, carrying a small Christmas tree with lighted candles. The British and German soldiers slowly leave their trenches—and the war—behind to stand together in the open field. This haunting story is adapted by award-winning songwriter John McCutcheon from his song of the same name. Henri Sørensen's traditional, full-color oil paintings reinforce the emotional power and dignity of the story. Back matter provides more information about the historical event, and a CD featuring readings of the story and recordings of "Silent Night" and "Christmas in the Trenches" is included.

Author : Karl De Schweinitz
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780265156964

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Description: Pamphlet outlining the work of the Home Service. Sections include mothers and wives, the children, the family, the town and the ultimate victory.

Author : John Drummond
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781886094772

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These are stories you won't read about in the Chicago guide books or travel brochures. Examine Justice Department transcripts involving mobsters and their victims. Meet some of Chicago's legendary characters. Listen in on high class hookers and escorts telling their secrets. Try to solve some of Chicago's most fascinating mysteries. Read about who gets the gravy and who doesn't in a TV newsroom. John Drummond takes you with him as he gets his story -- stories that are sometimes hilarious, sometimes brutal, sometimes poignant, and always fascinating. Book jacket.

Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0802719090

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World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Western Front-the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the coast of Belgium to the border of France and Switzerland, a narrow swath of land in which so many million lives were lost. For journalist Stephen O'Shea, the legacy of the Great War is personal (both his grandfathers fought on the front lines) and cultural. Stunned by viewing the "immense wound" still visible on the battlefield of the Somme, and feeling that "history is too important to be left to the professionals," he set out to walk the entire 450 miles through no-man's-land to discover for himself and for his generation the meaning of the war. Back to the Front is a remarkable combination of vivid history and opinionated travel writing. As his walk progresses, O'Shea recreates the shocking battles of the Western Front, many now legendary-Passchendaele, the Somme, the Argonne, Verdun-and offers an impassioned perspective on the war, the state of the land, and the cultivation of memory. His consummate skill with words and details brings alive the players, famous and faceless, on that horrific stage, and makes us aware of why the Great War, indeed history itself, still matters. An evocative fusion of past and present, Back to the Front will resonate, for all who read it, as few other books on war ever have.

Author : Karl B. 1887 De Schweinitz
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781373567024

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Author : R. E. CLOSE
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2015-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1329707613

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Book eight of the Helioseed Chronicles finds Arle's best friend, Trench, with a crisis of faith that must be resolved and an adventure through the pages of the history of Galn. A worldwide search for answers and unexpected beings pave the way.