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Gallipoli, Cape Helles, April 1915 - The Tragedy of the Battle of the Beaches Together with the Proceedings of H.M.S. Implacable Including the Lan

Gallipoli, Cape Helles, April 1915 - The Tragedy of the Battle of the Beaches Together with the Proceedings of H.M.S. Implacable Including the Lan

This brief memoir is the apologia by the Captain of the British Battleship ''Implacable'' - the only warship that successfully landed men at X Beach on Gallipoli''s Cape Helles on 25th April 1915. Captain Lockyer succeeded where other Captains failed by bringing his ship in close to the shore and raked the beaches themselves with shellfire from its 12\ guns - disobeying orders to concentrate his fire on the coastal ridges above the beaches. Captain Lockyer writes that had other ships behaved as..

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Marlborough - Bok av Sir John Fortescue - Häftad

Marlborough - Bok av Sir John Fortescue - Häftad

A masterpiece of military history, this is the concise biography of arguably England's greatest General by arguably Britain's greatest military historian. Fortescue's Marlborough is less of a hagiography than the huge two volume life by Marlborough's great descandent, Winston Churchill, but is a marvellous read for all that. Briskly taking in the story of the political machinations in Britain which often bedevilled the Duke's brilliance in battle, Fortescue's focus is firmly on the field of conflict...

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Siege of Newcastle - Bok av William Lithgow - Häftad

Siege of Newcastle - Bok av William Lithgow - Häftad

The author of this concise history of a campaign in the Scottish intervntion in the English Civil War was a Scottish traveller and gentleman, William Lithgow, who was an eye-witness of the actions he describes. The centrepiece of the book is Lithgow's history of the long-drawn out siege of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a Royalist stronghold which eventually capitulated to its Scots besiegeers in October 1644. The book also contains Lithgow's description of the 'Never to bee forgotten' battle of Marston Moor,..

SEK 140.00
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In the Hands of the Enemy - Being the Experiences of a Prisoner of War - Bok av M.A. Benjamin G. O' Rorke - Häftad

In the Hands of the Enemy - Being the Experiences of a Prisoner of War - Bok av M.A. Benjamin G. O' Rorke - Häftad

The author of this brief but fascinating memoir of being a POW in Germany early in the Great War was an army Chaplain taken prisoner with the Coldstream Guards at the Battle of Landrecies on August 25th 1914. O''Rorke was imprisoned at Torgau, and the fortress of Burg, as well as at Halle and Magdeburg in eastern Germany. He describes the attitude and habits of his German guards, relations with Russian prisoners held alongside him; and his hopes - at first dashed, but eventually fulfilled - to be..

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Sequence of Musketry Training, 1917 - Bok av The General Staff - Häftad

Sequence of Musketry Training, 1917 - Bok av The General Staff - Häftad

This 1917 manual of musketry training is designed to instruct all infantry ranks in the use and care of their rifles, even under the gruelling battle conditions of the western front in the fourth year of the Great War. It is also aimed at instructing Commanding officers to make the best use of their men''s firepower under all conditions. There are chapters on the care and maintenance of arms; on visual training and distance judging; fire discipline and range firing; and section, platoon and company..

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Monk - Bok av Julian Corbett - Häftad

Monk - Bok av Julian Corbett - Häftad

George Monk - or Monck - is one of the pivotal figures of English history. Born into the west country squirarchy, Monk went abroad as a soldier of fortune, gaining valuable military experience in Spain, France and the Netherlands. When the English Civil War broke out Monk's first allegiance was to the Royalist cause. Sent to Ireland to put down a rebellion, he became Governor of Dublin. Captured by the Roundheads at the battle of Nantwich, Monk spent two years in the Tower writing a military treatise..

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