46 Results for : despatch
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A Company of Tanks: Authentic WW1 Memoirs of 1917-18 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
A Company of Tanks, first published in 1920, is the final part of WHL Watson's memoirs of World War One. Watson, a young History graduate from Oxford University, enlisted as a corporal in the Royal Engineers on the outbreak of the war and was sent over to France as a motorcycle despatch rider. In 1915 he published Adventures of a Despatch Rider based on his letters home, but by then he had been promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to the Divisional Cyclists (known as the Gaspipe Cavalry because the cycle frame tubes resembled gas pipes). A Company of Tanks picks up his story in October 1916, when Major Watson (as he had become) volunteered to join the Heavy Machine Gun Corps (as the Tank Corps was then called) and was placed in command of No. 11 Company, D Battalion. Watson tells how the tank crews trained by carrying dummy tanks of wood and canvas (to the great amusement of local children) before engaging in initially disastrous battles. At Bullecourt, tanks were delayed by a blizzard and then, conspicuous against snow, devastated by enemy fire that penetrated inadequate armor. In the Third Battle of Ypres they were bogged down in mud and gassed. Lessons were learned, and at Cambrai tanks began be used more successfully. At the end of 1917, after a bout of trench fever, Watson returned to England to form a company of "carrier tanks" (used to provide logistical support on the battlefield) which he commanded in France until the end of the war. After the war, Watson joined the Civil Service and rose to high rank in the Ministry of Labour before his untimely death in 1932, at the age of 41. A Company of Tanks is a personal memoir filled with details of the messy process of industrial war, with its tragedy and horror but also humor, people, landscape, food, and drink. It will be of interest to professional historians or anyone interested in World War One. In this audiobook, it is read by Stephen Lowe Watson, a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Lowe Watson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085486/bk_acx0_085486_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Triumph on the Western Front
Triumph on the Western Front ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Diary of a Despatch Rider with the ANZACs 1915-1919. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Triumph on the Western Front
Triumph on the Western Front ab 6.99 € als epub eBook: Diary of a Despatch Rider with the ANZACs 1915-1919. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Biographien & Autobiographien,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Siege of Petersburg , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min
I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. - President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864 After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North, and Grant remained undeterred. Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee's army and crossing the James River. The fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful impromptu defense by P.G.T. Beauregard stopped Grant from taking Petersburg, which was a critical railroad hub and supply line for Richmond, before Lee's army could confront, thereby saving the Confederacy for the time being. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Peters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037177/bk_acx0_037177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Gasp of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia: The Siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. (President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864) After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage. To this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North and Grant remained undeterred. Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee's army and crossing the James River. The fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful, impromptu defense by P.G.T. Beauregard stopped Grant from taking Petersburg, which was a critical railroad hub and supply line for Richmond, before Lee's army could confront, thereby saving the Confederacy for the time being. The two armies began to dig in around Petersburg. Unbeknownst to them, they would be there for the next 9 months, constructing elaborate trenches and engaging in the kind of warfare that would be the forerunner of World War I. Both sides engaged in innovative and unique attempts at mining underneath the enemy's siege lines, as well as countermining. This led to the famous Battle of the Crater, which turned an ingenious engineering feat into a Union debacle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Peters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037423/bk_acx0_037423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Companies established in 1861
Companies established in 1861 ab 16.99 € als Taschenbuch: Birmingham Small Arms Company Harland and Wolff Wanamaker's Morris & Co. Bloomingdale's Blacks Leisure Group Wamsutta Oil Refinery Registro Italiano Navale Wilh. Wilhelmsen London Pneumatic Despatch Company. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Daredevil Of The Army; Experiences As A "e;Buzzer"e; And Despatch Rider [Illustrated Edition]
Daredevil Of The Army; Experiences As A "e;Buzzer"e; And Despatch Rider [Illustrated Edition]: ab 1.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider
Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Adventures of a Despatch Rider
Adventures of a Despatch Rider: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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