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Free Download Patrick Crowley, "Kut 1916: The Forgotten British Disaster in Iraq"
English | ISBN: 0750966068 | 2016 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment, and escape. Initially a great success in 1914, the Allied Mesopotamian campaign turned sour as the army pressed towards Baghdad and its poor logistic support, training, equipment, and command left it isolated and besieged by the Turks. On April 29, 1916, the British Army suffered one of the worst defeats in its military history. Major-General Sir Charles Townshend surrendered his Allied force to the Turks and more than 13,000 troops, British and Indian, went into captivity; many would not survive their incarceration. In Kut 1916, Colonel Crowley recounts this dramatic tale and its terrible aftermath.

Free Download William Langford – Great Push: The Battle of the Somme 1916 (Images of War)
Pen & Sword | 2012 | ISBN: 1781590419 | English | 244 pages | PDF | 190.7 MB
It was too good an opportunity to miss for many officers in the British Army when, in 1914 and 1915, they sailed across the Channel with the BEF – they took their cameras with them to record the historic events unfolding in Europe. Soon photographs of British soldiers in the trenches began to appear in newspapers and magazines throughout this country. The War Office decided it had to be stopped – far too much information presented on a plate to the enemy.

Free Download Michael S. Neiberg – The Western Front 1914-1916: From the Schlieffen Plan to Verdun and the Somme
Amber Books | 2008 | ISBN: 1906626014 | English | 236 pages | PDF | 123.22 MB
Michael Neiberg provides a detailed guide to the conflict on the Western Front in the early years of World War I, from the opening shots to the end of the Somme Offensive in late 1916.

Free Download French Soldier vs German Soldier: Verdun 1916 by David Campbell, Adam Hook
English | March 24, 2020 | ISBN: 1472838173 | 80 pages | MOBI | 19 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 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.