Battalions at War: The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War Dillon JohnPevná vazba
Battalions at War: The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War Dillon JohnPevná vazba The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. In the last two…
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Battalions at War: The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War Dillon JohnPevná vazba
The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. In the last two decades, revisionist historians have attempted to correct the narrative left to us by the war poets and early diarists; a chronicle of sacrifice, futility and the 'loss of a generation' at the hands of the 'bunglers' and 'butchers'. Three generations on, public perceptions of the war are formed from books, films and photographs.
The history of the war is 'bookmarked' by a series of iconic battles, from First Ypres, through the Somme, to Passchendaele and Cambrai and the final victory of the Hundred Days.When reading the accounts of the battles it is easy to overlook the very limited perspective of the individual soldiers. In spite of the efforts of these writers, commentators find it hard to move beyond the losses of 1 July 1916 and the mud of Passchendaele. Battalions were moved
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