This is a complete facsimile reprint of the May 1943 edition of the War Dept. manual for the Portable Flamethrowers, M1 and M1A1, as prepared under the direction of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare... More > Service. This manual was intended for the using arms and services. It gave all necessary information regarding the construction, functioning, and identification of all standard materiel pertaining to the portable flame thrower, with directions for operating and servicing such materiel. 123 pages, 57 photos and drawings.< Less
This book is a record of a Symposium held by the Baptist Historical Society of NSW on the 90th Anniversary of the World War 1 Armistice. Topics are a Modern Soldier's Reflections by Brigadier Jim... More > Wallace, World War 1 in Retrospect by Michael Petras and the Heartbreak of World War 1 by Professor Robert Linder.
It includes Letters from the Front, a list of Honours and Awards and of those who lost two or more sons in the conflict. Information about persons whose names are on the Wellington (NSW) Baptist Church Honour Roll is also included< Less
WAR AND THE FUTURE
Italy, France and Britain at War
by H. G. Wells
Contents
The Passing of the Effigy
The War in Italy (August, 1916)
I. The Isonzo Front
II. The Mountain War
III. Behind the... More > Front
The Western War (September, 1916)
I. Ruins
II. The Grades of War
III. The War Landscape
IV. New Arms for Old Ones
V. Tanks
How People Think About the War
I. Do they Really Think at all?
II. The Yielding Pacifist and the Conscientious Objector
III. The Religious Revival
IV. The Riddle of the British
V. The Social Changes in Progress
VI. The Ending of the War< Less
WAR AND THE FUTURE
Italy, France and Britain at War
by H. G. Wells
Contents
The Passing of the Effigy
The War in Italy (August, 1916)
I. The Isonzo Front
II. The Mountain War
III. Behind the... More > Front
The Western War (September, 1916)
I. Ruins
II. The Grades of War
III. The War Landscape
IV. New Arms for Old Ones
V. Tanks
How People Think About the War
I. Do they Really Think at all?
II. The Yielding Pacifist and the Conscientious Objector
III. The Religious Revival
IV. The Riddle of the British
V. The Social Changes in Progress
VI. The Ending of the War< Less
World War One represented a watershed in world history ,it was the first time that the industrial world utilised its weapons for mass destruction.
The carnage that followed would have a profound... More > effect on the rest of the 20th Century.
The horrors of trench warfare and mass casualties had a massive psychological effect on everyone who was exposed it.
Some tried to illustrate this through their poetry ,Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg both sought to expose the horrors through gritty realism, whilst others such Rupert Brooke concentrated on the world they were fighting for.
All three poets paid the ultimate price losing their lives .
As Wilfred Owen wrote
“All the poet can do today is warn,
that’s why the true poets must be truthful”
The greatest epitaph to these three men was that they were true poets.< Less
At 18 years old, James Sullivan volunteered for the Great War and was assigned to the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusilers. After one week of target practice he was on his way to the Front... More > Line.
Four years later, James Sullivan began his Memoirs of his three years and three months of service, in the First World War.
For nearly 100 years, his First World War Memoir has sat, unseen, in the back of an old wardrobe.
The words he recorded give a unique and vivid picture of life in the trenches, the everyday duties of a WW1 soldier, rest time, hospital stays, his brief encounter with royalty and the awfulness of war.
I’m Rosemarie Meleady, and these are the Memoirs of my grandfather.< Less
At 18 years old, James Sullivan volunteered for the Great War and was assigned to the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusilers. After one week of target practice he was on his way to the Front... More > Line.
Four years later, James Sullivan began his Memoirs of his three years and three months of service, in the First World War.
For nearly 100 years, his First World War Memoir has sat, unseen, in the back of an old wardrobe.
The words he recorded give a unique and vivid picture of life in the trenches, the everyday duties of a WW1 soldier, rest time, hospital stays, his brief encounter with royalty and the awfulness of war.
I’m Rosemarie Meleady, and these are the Memoirs of my grandfather.< Less
Pictorial album of 303 color and B&W photos and illustrations on the following World War II subjects: Pearl Harbor, Dunkirk, Bougainville, Commandos, Quebec Conference, Spanish Blue Division,... More > Crete, Cyprus, Declaration of War on Japan, Doolittle, Tokyo Raid, Tito, Yugoslav Partisans, Continuation War, Japanese Airborne, Bermuda, China, Chiang Kai-shek, Merrill’s Marauders, Orde Wingate, The “Hump,” Khalkin Gol (Nomonhan), Ernst Busch (German Army), Wake Island, North Africa, Cossacks in the Wehrmacht, East Meets West, Eisenhower, New Britain. Printed on quality paper for superior reproduction.< Less
25 articles on WWII history: Battle of the Bulge; 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment at Bastogne; Marine M2A4 Light Tanks: First Action At Guadalcanal; An Ace Called Gentile; Allied Revolvers of World... More > War II; 501st Schwere Panzerabteilung in North Africa; Soviet Army Rifle Division 1939-45; Tanks as Artillery: A Secondary Role of Armor; U.S. Navy at Bataan; Night Attack: USS Sealion Sinks the Kongo; VPB-106: The Wolverators; Dead-End Roads for the Japanese: Burma – Coral Sea – Midway; Fighter Pilots of 303 Squadron, RAF; Armor at Oran: Operation Torch, 1942. Veteran’s accounts: Christmas on Bougainville; Flying PBYs with VP-61 in the Aleutians; Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN: Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies; I Was Expendable; Incident on Biak Island; Escape from Death in a Wellington; Darned Clever These Chinese… and Confounding; A Jaundiced View of Tanks; Action in the Eifel; A Talk with Some Japs; The ‘88’ with 20/20 Vision. 44 photos.< Less
