The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten

History

John Terraine

Asia

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J L Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France. Almost every day while serving in France and Flanders, Jack kept a secret diary. This diary is unique. It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of the First World War on the Western Front. Jack was witness not only to the horror and wretchedness of much that happened in the trenches but also to the bravery and spirit that kept the British soldiers in the line going through to the momentous battles of 1918 and final victory. Poignant and moving, as well as describing the reality of war on the Western Front - what it was really like - these diaries have been edited and are linked with commentaries by the distinguished military historian John Terraine.

General Jack's Diary, 1914-18 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

Biographies & Memoirs

Cassell Military Paperbacks

At the time of publication the Great War, after a lapse of fifty years, had passed into history. This was the war which, in Kaiser Wilhelm's words, was to be over "before the leaves fall" but which instead blew into a holocaust that blazed from 1914 to 1918 and drew into its fiery center the United States and all the nations of Europe except Spain and Scandinavia. During its course, even at a cautious estimate, more than twelve million lives were destroyed on the battlefields, beneath the oceans, in hospitals, by madness and disease. Even if inevitable, even if, in Ambassador Herrick's words, "it had to come," this was the greatest, most senseless tragedy of its time. From the somber records of all the warring nations, from thousands of photographs in public collections and from his own personal collection, John Terraine selected some three hundred as the illustrations for this volume, "unquestionably the finest pictorial study of the Great War yet published." They were chosen with a deep sense of the horror, the heroism, the occasional grandeur of events as they evolved and of the personal involvement of the men and women whose faces look out at us from the pages. This is the war as it must have been. Here are the actors great and small -- the young recruits, the professional soldiers, the statesmen, the civilians, the generals, the women, not all of whom stayed at home and waited. Here too are the cities, the battlefields, the ship and the armies. As accompaniment to the pictures, each with its own explanatory caption, John Terraine has written a text that can stand in its own right as a brillian comprehensive narrative of the long, dark passage from Sarajevo to the Armistice. It was written in the same spirit in which the pictures were chosen, under the same compulsion to point out the fatal consequences of militarism and the inadequacies of statesmen.

The Great War, 1914-1918: A pictorial history

Military

DOUBLEDAY

U-Boat Wars 1916-1945, Spine is creased, 4 small holes partially punched on back cover, no other damage, three nice photo sections,

Business in Great Waters

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Mandarin

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