Kategorien: Første verdenskrigDenne kategori indeholder 194 bøger.
Den direkte anledning til krigens udbrud var serberen Gavrilo Princips mord, han medlem af terrororganisationen "Den Sorte Hånd" på den østrigske tronfølger Franz Ferdinand den 28. juni 1914 i Sarajevo. En anden årsag var, at den tyske ledelse ønskede en storkrig, hvilket kunne gøre det Tyskland til den vigtigste magt i Europa.
Efter en lang skyttegravskrig, med mange døde på begge sider, træder USA ind i krigen hvilket ændrer styrkeforholdet.
Første Verdens krig slutter den 11. november 1918 med nederlag til Kejserdømmet Østrig-Ungarn og Kejserdømmet Tyskland, der efterfølgende bliver til en republikker.
Vimy Ridge was one of the most important geographic features on the entire Western Front in World War I (1914-1918). In early 1917 it was considered practically impregnable, but on 9 April the Canadian Army Corps, under the command of the British Lieutenant General Sir Julian Byng, assaulted it as part of the Arras offensive. In one of the most spectacular operational attacks of the war, they seized almost the entire ridge in a single day. This book describes how the innovative efforts that went into every aspect of the preparation for this attack ensured that the Canadian and British troops achieved unprecedented success.
Previous works have concentrated on the 'Pal' in Britain's northern towns and cities. This book seeks to explore the little appreciated part in the Battle of the Somme played by the Regular and Volunteer Service battalions of two small West Country regiments; the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment. These two regiments had five battalions in action on the first day of the battle and were represented in most of the significant attacks during the three and half months of the 1916. The reader will be able to form a clear picture of the battle's development as a whole through the eyes of Westcountry soldiers who fought on the Somme. Illustrated, hard cover, fine with dust jacket. 288 pages.
The book details the history of the 10th Battalion of the East Yorkshire, known as the Hull Pals, from September 1914 to May 1918. In around 150 pages it will provide viewers with answers to the questions the program will generate: Who were these men? What did they do? Which of them survived? Where did they really come from? Did they really live like this? Over 150 photographs, illustrations and maps record in detail the lives of these men; many of the illustrations have never been seen before. Known locally as "The Commercials" because they were a battalion of office workers, the 1400 men trained in England, were sent to fight the Turks in Egypt and then returned to spend nearly three years in the trenches of the Western Front. Their losses were heavy, with around one in four being killed. 224 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, fine
The book details the history of the 10th Battalion of the East Yorkshire, known as the Hull Pals, from September 1914 to May 1918. In around 150 pages it will provide viewers with answers to the questions the program will generate: Who were these men? What did they do? Which of them survived? Where did they really come from? Did they really live like this? Over 150 photographs, illustrations and maps record in detail the lives of these men; many of the illustrations have never been seen before. Known locally as "The Commercials" because they were a battalion of office workers, the 1400 men trained in England, were sent to fight the Turks in Egypt and then returned to spend nearly three years in the trenches of the Western Front. Their losses were heavy, with around one in four being killed. 224 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, fine
Initially the strongest of all the Allied armies, France's metropolitan and colonial units bore the greatest burden during the first two years of the Great War, and made a great contribution to the final victory. In common with most European countries, the pre-war French Army was based on a system of national military service providing conscripts who could be subject to recall as reservists for several years after. However, the advent of war, the crisis in manpower, and the development of new tactics and weapons brought radical changes. The influence of these factors on the organisation, equipment, uniforms and tactics of the French Army during World War I is examined in detail in this title. 48 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, fine
The part played in World War I (1914-1918) by the army of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy is little known to English-speakers, perhaps because the end of the war saw the complete destruction of the Empire. Yet it was of central importance, providing nearly all Central Powers forces on the Italian front, huge numbers on the Russian front, seven Army Corps in the Balkans – and even a little-known contingent in Turkey and Palestine. The first half of the story of this complex multi-national organization at war is described here in a concise but detailed text, supported by data tables and an insignia chart, and illustrated with rare photographs and colourful uniform plates. 48 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, very good
The first official German stormtroop unit was authorised on 2 March 1915 when the Supreme Command of the field army ordered the VIII Corps to form a detachment for the testing of experimental weapons and the development of approximate tactics that could break the deadlock on the Western Front. By the summer of 1915, stormtroop units were springing up throughout the German armies in the west and by the end of 1916 official stormtroop battalions were established throughout the western armies, providing a deadly new threat for the allies. This book examines the uniform, equipment and tactic of Germany’s feared elites.
Med forord af Claus Bundgård Christensen. Bogen er en genudgivelse af Danske soldaterbreve samlede og udgivne af Harald Nielsen første og anden samling 1917 og 1918. 302 sider, heftet, nærmest som ny.
indbundet og med smudsopslag
Følg personerne fra GIGANTERNES FALD og deres børn i de dramatiske år omkring 2. verdenskrig.
En storslået historisk fortælling fortalt gennem gribende familieskæbner, om kampen for frihed og demokrati, om krig og kærlighed. VERDENS VINTER er andet bind i Ken Folletts store trilogi om det 20. århundrede fortalt gennem fem familier to engelske, en tysk, en russisk og en amerikansk. Børnene fra GIGANTERNES FALD er nu næsten voksne, og vi følger dem og deres forældre i årene omkring Depressionen, Den spanske borgerkrig og 2. verdenskrig - tæt på magtens centrum, på slagmarkerne og i kampen for overlevelse hjemme i byerne.
Follett fortæller igen levende og engageret om de store verdenshistoriske begivenheder gennem en række gribende skæbner, som mødes og skilles, krydser hinanden på tværs af kontinenter og er med til at præge historiens gang.
indbundet + smudsbind.Få andre nationer har ført så mange krige mod hinanden. Historiker har regnet ud, at vi har været oppe at slås sammenlagt i 134 år. der fortælles levende om den blodige og farverige historie, om de dansk-svenske landskampe. Fra den første på Bråvalla,og til de seneste landskla
smukt indbundne med guldtryk
Den lille, naive, snakkesalige mand er ingen oprører, men dog en stadig belastning for den østrig-ungarske militærmaskine.
1. bind BAG FRONTEN. 2.bind NYE LIDELSER og det herlige sammenbrud. oversat af Eigil Steffensen. humoritiske illustrationer af Josef Lada.
indbundet med smudsomslag
Med baggrund i Irlands historie fra århundredskiftet og frem til Påskeoprøret i 1916 fortælles om 3 familiers skæbner, engagement i frihedskrigen og indbyrdes modsætnings- og kærlighedsforhold.
og vi følger Rory larkin som er fast besluttet på at kæmpe sig vej til Irland f
indbundet
Da Tyskland invaderer Polen i 1939, befinder Marta og hendes spejdertrop sig på et meget prekært sted, tæt på grænsen, og det eneste hendes far kan finde på, er at sørge for at hun straks bliver bragt i sikkerhed i et kloster langt fra Warszawa.
Hvad faderen naturligvis ikke havde drømt om, er, at intet sted i Polen er sikkert, og da slet ikke for datteren af en officer.
Der går ikke mange måneder, før Hitlers nye "ven", Stalin, begynder at sende potentielle modstandere i arbejdslejr, og kan man ikke få fat i officeren, må man nøjes med datteren.
Det bliver for Marta og de venner, hun får i arbejdslejren i Sibirien, begyndelsen til fem forfærdelige år, hvor eneste chance for overlevelse afhænger af sammenhold og en overmåde stærk selvopholdelsesdrift. Fra arbejdslejren går turen over et landbrugskollektiv til flygtningelejre i Iran, og der møder Marta sin skæbne i form af en charmerende iransk læge og en polsk løjtnant.
Den dekorerede politikommisær Douglas Kingsley nægter at drage i krig og bliver sat i det hårdeste fængsel for at statuere et eksempel. Derfra bliver han kidnappet og sendt til fronten for at opklare et mord på en kendt og adelig officere
When Robert J. Rider died in 1961, he left to his descendants a typescript text, tentatively entitled Flashbacks, which would eventually become Reflections on the Battlefield. Broadly autobiographical, this text offers a unique account of its author who fought as an infantryman while also serving as a chaplain, thus exposing himself in peculiar directness to the ambiguities of chaplaincy service on the battlefield. A further particularity is that Rider was in a minority among chaplains, being a Methodist chaplain. In August 1914, Rider, aged twenty-five, was about to begin his third year of training for the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist church, at Handsworth Theological College in Birmingham. Two months later he had enlisted with the First Birmingham Battalion, later termed the 14th Battalion, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rider's first-hand accounts of Ypres, the Somme and Arras reveal a man morally opposed to war and yet adamant that Germany and her allies needed to be defeated. Reflections on the Battlefield provides us with a personal and valuable contribution to the present-day debate about the contemporary understanding of the ethics of war, as expressed on the World War I battlefield. 147 pages, soft cover, very good
SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful time, remembered since in song and story, a world war stopped. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible. Germans placed candle-lit Christmas trees on trench parapets and warring soldiers sang carols. In the spirit of the season they ventured out beyond their barbed wire to meet in No Man's Land, where they buried the dead in moving ceremonies, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and joyously played football, often with improvised balls. The truce spread as men defied orders and fired harmlessly into the air. But, reluctantly, they were forced to re-start history's most bloody war. SILENT NIGHT vividly recovers a dreamlike event, one of the most extraordinary of Christmas stories. 238 pages, Paperback, illustrations, very good
263 sider. Orig. heftet m. illustr. omslag. Illustr. s/h. Describes the activities of women's peace groups during World War I and depicts the efforts of women to encourage a negotiated end to the conflict. Enkelte noter og understregninger. Navn på titelblad. Samling (HRN)
Det store opgør - Verdenskrigen 1914-18 - 143 sider - Hardback - Sprog: Dansk - Rigt illustreret i s/h og farver.
Med Ex-libris.
Pris ex forsendelse -B1707 -04 -11048.2
In this volume, Andrew Green examines the progress by which the Official Histories of World War I was written, the motives and influences of its paymasters, and the literary integrity of its historians. 239 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, very good
First published in 1998, this is the account of the battle, retreat and stand at Amiens, which saved the city, secured the line and caused Ludendorff to call off his offensive in the spring of 1918. But mostly it is the story of the men who took part, the commandos, the weary but resolute Tommies, the exultant Germans, the French and the Doughboys. 382 pages, paperback
