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Free Download Captain W.H.L. Watson, Bob Carruthers, "With the Tanks 1916-1918"
English | 2014 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 1783463155, 1399023829 | EPUB | 10,6 mb
William Watson was a young Oxford post-graduate at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Along with several friends from Oxford he enlisted in the army expecting the war to last six weeks. Watson began his service in the Great War as a British Army motorcycle dispatch rider. He saw active service during the key battles of 1914 and early 1915. Watson was then commissioned and became a tank commander and saw active service with the tanks most notably at Cambrai in 1917.

Free Download George Bonney – The Battle of Jutland 1916
Sutton Publishing | 2006 | ISBN: 0750941782 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 165.94 MB
The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval battle of World War I, representing the culmination of the war on the surface of the sea between Britain and Germany, and of the preparations for naval combat that began in 1897. There is controversy to this day over who really won the battle. The fighting took place in the confined waters of the North Sea, just off the entrance to the Skagerrak and the Danish province of Jutland. Both Germany and Britain fielded great numbers of Dreadnought battleships, with scouting cruisers, protecting destroyers, and torpedo boats. The carnage was massive, and heavy losses were suffered—some 6,097 British seamen and 2,551 German seamen had lost their lives. Germany claimed and continues to claim victory. But, although the Royal Navy’s grand fleet suffered greatly in terms of ships and men lost, the net result was that for the rest of the war the German High Seas Fleet ceased to be a threat to Allied surface shipping. Lavishly illustrated with archive photographs and paintings, this book presents the Jutland story in an engaging and accessible style.

Free Download The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal By Peter H. Liddle
2001 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1840222409 | PDF | 77 MB
Not restricted to the view of the front-line infantryman, this text also describes the experiences of the gunner, sapper, airman, medical officer, and nursing sister. The author explains how the Somme became scorched into the nation’s heritage and into its historical consciousness, but with a distortion produced by a literary legacy as regrettable as it is understandable. In this book, Liddle takes issue with the judgement of some historians and with the commonly held verdict on the battle. Furthermore, in conclusion, he demonstrates how the morales of the British Expeditionary Force triumphantly survived such a long and demanding experience. The narrative draws extensiely on diaries, letters, reports, photographs and drawings from the Liddle Collection of the University of Leeds.

Free Download David Campbell, "French Soldier vs German Soldier: Verdun 1916 "
English | ISBN: 1472838173 | 2020 | 80 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
Featuring specially commissioned artwork, archive photography, and full-color maps, this engrossing study investigates the doctrine, training, equipment, and combat record of the French and German troops who clashed in three key battles during the epic struggle for the Verdun sector at the height of World War I.

Free Download Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford by Claud Williams, Russell McGuirk
English | February 11, 2014 | ISBN: 1900971151 | 288 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme. Lavishly illustrated with original photographs from Light Car officers, this combined memoir and history provides a fascinating and informative picture of an unsung hero of the desert – the Model T Ford.

Free Download Jack Sheldon, "German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1844152693 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 6.5 mb
By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and preparation.

Free Download Innes McCartney, "Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield"
English | 2016 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1844864162, 1472835417 | EPUB | 98,0 mb
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory.

Free Download Alistair Horne, John Lee (Narrator), "The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916"
English | ASIN: B0CQF9QYYR | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~14:26:00 | 434 MB
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne’s trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne’s classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them, and the world that gave them the opportunity.

Free Download The Riggs War, 1913 to 1916: Reform and Revenge (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in American History and Culture) by Paul Ryscavage
English | August 23, 2017 | ISBN: 1683930762 | 294 pages | EPUB | 36 Mb
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson opened the nation’s door to an era of reform. To help him, he brought to Washington men imbued with a progressive spirit-and in some, grudges as well!

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and triumph"
English | 2006 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1846030382 | PDF | 45,6 mb
The first day of the Battle of the Somme of World War I (1914-1918) is still on record as having the largest number of deaths in any one day in any war. This book explores the myths of this infamous battle, and the use of mines, tunnels, gas and flame-throwers by the British in combination with innovative tactics such as smoke. Andrew Robertshaw analyses the first day of the battle, explaining how British tactics developed as a result of the experience of the Somme, and provides an overview of the events along the entire front line, examining the actions of two British Corps, VIII at Serre and XIII at Montauban.