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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.

Free Download Martin Pegler, "Attack on the Somme: Haig’s Offensive 1916"
English | 2011 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 1844153975 | EPUB | 9,6 mb
The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country’s collective memory as a disaster – probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed.