Scott Stephenson attempts to explain this conundrum by closely examining the soldiers on the western front in 1918, their experiences in the last months of the war, their orderly march back home, and their role in the critical months of late 1918 and early 1919. As he states in his preface...
Many went on to win the highest bravery awards. "For King and Another Country" tells, for the first time, the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbaned Maharaja rearing to fight for Empire to a lowly sweeper who dies in a hospital ...
21-02-28 It happened 100 years ago this week: tired young men jumped out of their muddy trenches on the Western Front of the First World War and fraternised with the enemy. Soldiers exchanged small gifts and some even played football together in no-mans-land... 共4页/34条 首页 上...
Soldiers on the Cultural Front豆瓣评分:0.0 简介:An understanding of contemporary North Korea's literature is virtually impossible without an investigation of its formative period, 1945-1960, which saw a gradual transformation from the initial "Sovi
Soldiers on the Cultural Frontpresents the first consistent research on the early history of North Korea’s literature and literary policy in Western scholarship. It traces the introduction and development of Soviet-organized conventions in North Korean literary propaganda and investigates why the "romanc...
The Terrible Generals of the Great War Sarah Edmonds: Soldier Girl Wojtek the Bear: A Polish Soldier Junior Officers in World War One
A group of soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment, ready for action on the Western Front in France during the Somme offensive of 1916. Although the West Indies regiment of regular soliders had been in existence since 1795 and based in the Caribbean, the BWIR, formed as a separate ...
Caught in the Crossfire: Canadian Snipers and Open Warfare by Leslie P. Mepham ‘Hades’ Henchmen: The Australian Tunnelling Companies and ‘Alphabet Company’: 1916-1919’ by Damien Finlayson 'Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO Pioneer Battalion Commander ...
By September 1918, the First World War was entering its final stages as Britain and her allies inflicted a series of defeats on the German Army on the Western Front. But the Germans were still not broken and the Allies knew they had a daunting task ahead of them as they prepared to ...
Word of the Day Help For webmasters: Free content Linking Lookup box Close Infantry (redirected from Foot-soldiers)Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus. infantry infantry, body of soldiers who fight in an army on foot and are equipped with hand-carried weapons, in contradistinction originally...