1914
Voices from the Battlefields
Published on 10. February 2013
492 pages
978-1-4738-3126-1 (ISBN)
Description
The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt.These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were eyewitnesses to them. There is a freshness and immediacy to their accounts which Matthew Richardson exploits in this thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and the junior officers of the British Army, the men at the sharp end of the fighting.This title has full colour plates containing over 100 illustrations.Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month February 2014
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1914: Voices from the Battlefield
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The First Song of the Bullet
- Chapter 2: A Hail of Death
- Chapter 3: Most Awful and Bloodthirsty
- Chapter 4: A Splendid Adventure
- Chapter 5: The Glory of War
- Chapter 6: At All Costs
- Chapter 7: A Most Peculiar Christmas
- Notes
- Bibliography and Websites
