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Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916

The Complete War Diaries of the British Army's Worst Day

By: Martin Mace,John Grehan

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Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916

The Complete War Diaries of the British Army's Worst Day

By: Martin Mace,John Grehan

At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches on their part of the Western Front, and began to make their way steadily towards the German lines opposite. It was the first day of the Battle of the Somme.By the end of the day, a number of the regiments involved had met with some degree of success; others had suffered heavy losses for no gain, whilst a few quite literally ceased to exist. That day, the old infantry tactics of the British Army clashed head-on with the reality of modern warfare. On what is generally accepted as the worst day in the British Armys history, there were more than 60,000 casualties a third of them fatal.In this publication, the authors have drawn together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for 171 British Regiments that went over the top that day a day that even now still touches so many families both in the United Kingdom and around the world. The result will be a vital work of reference to the events of 1 July 1916, a valuable information source for not only for those interested in military history, but genealogists and historians alike.

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1783830417

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Arnhem 1944

The Airborne Battle

By: Martin Middlebrook

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Arnhem 1944

The Airborne Battle

By: Martin Middlebrook

Arnhem - it was the last major battle lost by the British Army, lost not by the men who fought there but by the overconfidence of generals, faulty planning and the failure of a relieving force given too great a task. If the operation of which Arnhem formed a part had been successful, the outcome of the war and the history of post-war Europe would have been greatly altered. Yet is it worth another book? I had fulfilled all my literary ambitions by researching and writing thirteen full-length books and was ready to retire from that laborious craft when Peter van Gorsel, head of Penguin's Dutch office, asked me to write a book on Arnhem for the fiftieth anniversary in 1994. It was the first time that my publishers had requested a book; all previous subjects had been my choice. I eventually agreed for several reasons. I had not previously researched and written about the British Army in the Second World War and had not previously done any work in Holland; so two fresh fields were opened up to me. I also felt that the fighting in and around Arnhem had still not been described in the detail that it merited.

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Routledge

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0429720769

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9780429720765

Not All so Tall Tales

By: Martin C. Coy

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Not All so Tall Tales

By: Martin C. Coy

How would you react if you were a young boy who had lost friends when he and his family were transferred to another town to work and live? Or did you ever have people in your life who seemed to think they could do things better than everyone else? Maybe youve wondered what would happen if you could go back in time to rectify a mistake you think youve made. Or perhaps youve thought about why life keeps putting roadblocks in your way to being rewarded for what you know you have done. For some of us, it seems that finding the right soul mate will never happen; for others, solving problems in life situations is a calling. Human behavior and its consequence is a dynamic that we all experience in our individual ways. If youve ever heard it said that we are what we experience, then Not All So Tall Tales will provide you with some food for thought.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462805116

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9781462805112

Falklands Gunner

A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War

By: Tom Martin

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Falklands Gunner

A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War

By: Tom Martin

The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.Second Lieutenant Tom Martin was a Command Post Officer with 29 (Corunna) Field Battery RA which deployed to the South Atlantic in 1982 as part of the Task Force dispatched to retake the Falklands. With its six 105mm Light Guns making the journey on the MV Europic Ferry, the Battery sailed south on the MV Norland with 2 PARA, joining 3 Commando Brigade for the landings. The five gun batteries of the Royal Artillery, totaling thirty light field guns, fired a tremendous number of shells on the Argentine forces. For its part, 29 (Corunna) Field Battery fired the first Fire Mission of the conflict and continued to do so until the Argentinian surrender in the most testing environment and against the odds.Whilst in the South Atlantic, Martin sought to detail and record the action on the Batterys gun position. Supported by the recollections of some of those he served alongside, Martins notes and diary entries form the basis of this book; a vivid, blow-by-blow account which provides a comprehensive picture of the Royal Artillery and its pivotal role in the Falklands War.

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1473881234

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9781473881235

Unburied Treasure

By: Martin C. Coy

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Unburied Treasure

By: Martin C. Coy

As they climbed the wooded trail to the top of a ridge from where they could see houses down in the valley across from them, the four young hikers had reached the cave in the Ohio hills. Shining a flashlight onto the bottom of the caves mountainous inner wall, they found evidence of some digging. Their curiosity spurred them on to dig there too. Soon, the ground gave up the shape of a box. Loosening its earthen grip, the four adventurers pulled the box from the hole. The box contained a necklace with an amulet made of a shard of pottery in it. Removing the necklace with an old piece of leather strapping attached to it, they examined the article. Little did the quartet know of the adventure of a lifetime this item was about to take them on.

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1503567850

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9781503567856

The Trigger Men

Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict

By: Martin Dillon

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The Trigger Men

Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict

By: Martin Dillon

In The Trigger Men, bestselling author Martin Dillon delves into the dark and sinister world of Irish terrorism and counter-terrorism. Over three decades he has interviewed and investigated some of the most professional, dangerous and ruthless killers in Ireland. Now Dillon explores their personalities, motivations and bizarre crimes.Many of Ireland's assassins learned their trade in fields and on hillsides in remote parts of Ireland, while others were trained in the Middle East or with Basque separatist terrorists in Spain. Some were one-target-one-shot killers, like the sniper who terrorised the inhabitants of Washington State in the autumn of 2002, while others were bombers skilled in designing the most sophisticated explosive devices and booby traps. Another more powerful group of 'trigger men' were the influential figures in the shadows, who were experts in motivating the killers under their control. All of these men, whether they squeezed the trigger on a high-powered rifle, set the timer on a bomb or used their authority to send others out to commit horrific and unspeakable acts of cruelty, are featured in this book. The Trigger Men takes the reader inside the labyrinthine world of terrorist cells and highly classified counter-terrorism units of British Military Intelligence. The individual stories are described in gripping, unflinching detail and show how the terrorists carried out their ghastly work. Dillon also explores the ideology of the cult of the gunmen and the greed and hatred that motivated assassins in their killing sprees. There are penetrating insights into the mindset of the most infamous assassins: their social and historical conditioning, their callousness......

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Random House

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1780573766

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Battle Diary

From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE

By: Charles Cromwell Martin

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Battle Diary

From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE

By: Charles Cromwell Martin

He was one of the first on the beach on 6 June 1994 -- D-Day. Charlie Martin and members of the Queen's Own Rifles raced from their landing craft, dodging, shooting, tearing across the sand towards the French village of Bernières-sur-Mer. They made that objective, though the losses were heavy. This is a rifleman's story , on the ground and at the point, under fire, in minefields, in trenches, in mud. The shrinking band of D-Day originals gratefully accepted reinforcements as they battled across France, took the Channel ports, slogged through the soggy fields, and dikes of the Scheldt and Holland, and finally crossed the Rhine. They faced Hitler Youth units, SS regiments, and highly trained paratroops. None surrendered easily. Charlie's memoir is a striking portrayal of how the boys of the Queen's Own became men and how the men became veterans. They had to learn fast at the 'point' or they were gone.

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Dundurn

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155002213X

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9781550022131

Argentine Fight for the Falklands

By: Martin Middlebrook

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Argentine Fight for the Falklands

By: Martin Middlebrook

An account by the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. Avoiding involvement in the issue of sovereignty and concentrating entirely upon the military story, this history is a unique and balanced look at the 1982 war for the islands that the UK called the Falklands and Argentina called the Malvinas, a ten-week conflict that killed nearly a thousand people. Among the men the author met were the captain of the ship that took the scrap-metal merchants to South Georgia; the admiral in charge of planning the Falklands invasion; the marine commander and other members of the invasion force; two brigadier-generals, five unit commanders, and many other men of the large army force sent to occupy and defend the islands; the officer in charge of the Argentine garrison at Goose Green; and, finally, the brigadier-general responsible for the defense of Port Stanley and soldiers of all ranks who fought the final battles.

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Pen and Sword

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1783032022

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9781783032020

The First Day on the Somme

Revised Edition

By: Martin Middlebrook

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The First Day on the Somme

Revised Edition

By: Martin Middlebrook

A history of the British Army’s experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I. After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than fifty times the daily losses at El Alamein and fifteen times the British casualties on D-day, July 1, 1916, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. But, more than that, as Lloyd George recognized, it was a watershed in the history of the First World War. The Army that attacked on that day was the volunteer Army that had answered Kitchener’s call. It had gone into action confident of a decisive victory. But by sunset on the first day on the Somme, no one could any longer think of a war that might be won. Martin Middlebrook’s research has covered not just official and regimental histories and tours of the battlefields, but interviews with hundreds of survivors, both British and German. As to the action itself, he conveys the overall strategic view and the terrifying reality that it was for front-line soldiers. Revised in 2016 from the 1971 original edition. Praise for The First Day on the Somme “The remembrance of those lives, difficult as it may be, will start in earnest now, with this wonderful book. It’s almost like being there yourself... enough said.”—Books Monthly (UK)

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Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916

Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916

Arnhem 1944

Arnhem 1944

Not All so Tall Tales

Not All so Tall Tales

Falklands Gunner

Falklands Gunner

Unburied Treasure

Unburied Treasure

The Trigger Men

The Trigger Men

Battle Diary

Battle Diary

Argentine Fight for the Falklands

Argentine Fight for the Falklands

The First Day on the Somme

The First Day on the Somme

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