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Over the Top

By: Arthur Empey

...Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His experiences in the trenches, including his ultimate wounding and convalescence, became this book. When published in 1917, it was a major hit and helped the recruiting effort when America entered the Great War. If you've heard of the horror of t...

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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918 Part One Amiens

By: John Frederick Bligh Livesay

...itionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to break through the German Hindenburg Line and then push the enemy from their defensive positions. You will follow the CEF as they take Amiens, Arras, Cambrai and then the pursuit of...

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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918 Part Two Arras

By: John Frederick Bligh Livesay

...itionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to break through the German Hindenburg Line and then push the enemy from their defensive positions. You will follow the CEF as they take Amiens (Part I - complete), Arras (Part II - t...

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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part Four, Valenciennes to Mons

By: John Frederick Bligh Livesay

...ary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. /br> After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to break through the German Hindenburg Line and then push the enemy from their defensive positions. You will follow the CEF as they take Amiens (Part I), Arras (Part II), Cambrai (Par...

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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part Three, Cambrai

By: John Frederick Bligh Livesay

...ary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. /br> After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to break through the German Hindenburg Line and then push the enemy from their defensive positions. You will follow the CEF as they take Amiens (Part One), Arras (Part Two), Cambrai (...

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It Was Their War Too : Canadian Women in World War I

By: Pat Staton

...d all wars,” as though such a disaster could or would ever be repeated, focus on the political causes and horrifying loss of life in the bombings and trench warfare. The aftermath is usually described in terms of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and the devastation wrought by the worldwide flu epidemic, which added to the death toll. The contributions of, and conseque...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...ng these unfaithful fears would have withheld me from entering with good earnest on the warfare, when the Lord himself, as oft his manner is, plunged... ...sons. —1 st . That then the number of the elect is accomplished; 2 nd . That then their warfare is ended; and 3 rd . That their kingdom is come: whil... ...roduce a spurious restoration of the nations to their own land, and occasion that great warfare in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, when Antichrist s... ...e Holy Spirit for the very end of enabling us to keep this perilous course and wage the warfare unto the end; and for that reason is he not called T... ...hief which the earth has endured, must be cast out by the seed of the woman, before the warfare will end which the seed of the woman in his church h... ... not in extent, nor in people, but in valour and military glory; and as if this (though trenching most violently upon the sense,) could not be doubte... ...form of a prophecy. “For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... Quakes occur even on the moon which has no plates, volcanic activities, or ocean trenches. The five seismograph stations of the Passive Seismic E... ...t_war.htm http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/hundred_years_war. html Warfare, Biological and Chemical Chemical and biological warfare...

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Dieselpunk Epulp Showcase : Volume 1

By: John W. Picha; Grant Gardiner
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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... this state of the inorganic earth’s state of continual oppositional state of warfare. They were not aware that as living organisms, they had defec... ...? Why do you think the 12,000 years of human civilization is one long tale of warfare, hatreds, and a constant unending battle over territory? Ever... ...ion, mass destruction, mass genocide, mass extinctions, mass- production, mass warfare, etc. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Summary of Hom... ...ns-ideas-rituals-values which each culture forced its inhabitants to live by. Warfare probably magnified the concept of cultural exclusion: creating... ...ought that they could increase productivity if their CEO could go down in the trenches to see how things actually were run so he could come back to ... ...people to sit at that cash register for you; is harder work than digging in a trench with a shovel eight hours a day? Oops. Most small shopkeepers ... ...f the western world. ever since. The 1 st World War was not planned as a trench war. It was planned by all of the Nations involved, as a swift,... ...rushing victories materialized: it quickly degenerated into what was coined a Trench War: since so many trenches were dug… not that they had planned... ...t and decisive. They did not stop to think what a new form of warfare called trench warfare would do to the entire dynamic of war itself. They did ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... the plastique bombs in Paris. I’ve lived in South Central LA amid the gang warfare. “I long ago concluded that things can be better. Why th... ...ders of their religions are all fighting at the bottom of the hill. They dig trenches and moats that bring them farther from the top. And their psych...

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Love at First Stake

By: J. Morgan

...ed like a really bad idea. Though, if we were following the polite rules of warfare, I should at least give him my name, rank and serial number. Ho... ...ell, you were the one who asked if I had anything to say.” Rufio’s hands dug trenches in his slick hair. “I meant as in do you have any last request...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

........................................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN ................ ...pletely as ever serpent sloughed his skin. Her lamb had fallen into a deep trench, from which all escape was hopeless with- out the aid of man. And to... ...lified, by a delicacy of temperament, for reaping the benefits from such a warfare, and having suffered too much in his own Westminster experience, he... ... the morning, or returning in the afternoon. Stones were the implements of warfare; and by continual practice both parties became expert in throwing t... ...cular accident which began it was not the true efficient cause of our long warfare, but simply the casual occasion. The cause lay in our aristocratic ... ...and all, as cannon shot from cotton bags. The ordinary course of our day’s warfare was this: between nine and ten in the morning occurred our first tr...

...APTER IV: THE FEMALE INFIDEL ...................................................................................118 CHAPTER V I: AM INTRODUCED TO THE WARFARE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL.......... 131 CHAPTER VIII: DUBLIN ........................................................................................................... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION...........................

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ‘Old Mortality’ and ‘Woodstock’ are not controversial t... ...stacie to that of gentle Lucy had been to Berenger a change from perpetual warfareto perfect supremacy, and his preference to his little sister, as he... ...ate among nettles, weeds, and briers. There seemed to have been a few deep trenches dug to receive the bodies of the many victims of the siege, and on... ...which, should he ever discover the original contract, will lead to endless warfare.’ ‘His marriage with Eustacie was annulled. Yet—yet there might be ... ...or any other jam he pleases, without more to vex thee.’ Lucy, now that the warfare was over, had begun to weep so profusely that so soon as her father...

...religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixte...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...then ap- pear photographs of Mr. Arnold Bennett wading in the 5 H G Wells trenches of Flanders, Mr. Noyes becomes discreetly indis- creet about what ... ... thousands of poilus sitting about in cafes, by the roadside, in tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have seen Alpini sitting restfully and staring with... ...a- tion. One day on the Carso he had been near the newly captured Austrian trenches, and suddenly from amidst a scat- tered mass of Austrian bodies a ... ...ad as a picture at the other ex- treme of this series, a memory of certain trenches I visited on my last day in France. They were trenches on an offen... ...fly at night and dug the steep ditches sideways to join up into continuous trenches. 20 War and the Future Now they were pushing forward saps into No... ...the sound of a Zeppelin one night in Essex for all my experience of actual warfare. But my bedroom at the British mission in Udine roused perhaps extr... ...zo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like nothing else in the world; it is warfare that pushes the bound... ...rld; it is warfare that pushes the bound- ary backward, but it is mountain warfare that will not, for so long a period that the war will be over first... ...HE MOUNTAIN AIN AIN AIN AIN W W W W WAR AR AR AR AR 1 1 1 1 1 THE MOUNTAIN WARFARE of Italy is extraordinarily unlike that upon any other front. From ...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...riter’s luckiest shots was a description (in “An- ticipations” in 1900) of trench warfare, and of a deadlock almost exactly upon the lines of the situ... ... luckiest shots was a description (in “An- ticipations” in 1900) of trench warfare, and of a deadlock almost exactly upon the lines of the situation a... ...on- centrated upon that; the types of ability that are not appli- cable to warfare are neglected; there is a vast destruction of capital and a waste o... ...rtunate if in 1924 they stand where they did in the spring of 1914. In the trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Ger... ...d have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary lines, the Germa... ...and men would have held them indefinitely. But the Allies had never worked trench warfare; they were unready for it, Germans knew of their unreadiness... ... would have held them indefinitely. But the Allies had never worked trench warfare; they were unready for it, Germans knew of their unreadiness, and t... ...und British will come out of this war like a company out of a well-shelled trench—attenuated. Depreciation of the currency means, of course, a continu... ...ion people in the British Isles, men and women, either engaged directly in warfare or in the manufacture of munitions or in employments such as transi...

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

..., What my soul prompts, and what some god commands. Great Jove, averse our warfare to compose, O’erwhelms the nations with new toils and woes; War wit... ...rs; From space to space be ample gates around, For passing chariots; and a trench profound. So Greece to combat shall in safety go, Nor fear the fierc... ...6 From space to space were ample gates around, For passing chariots, and a trench profound Of large extent; and deep in earth below, Strong piles infi... ...all, Weak bulwarks; destined by this arm to fall. High o’er their slighted trench our steeds shall bound, And pass victorious o’er the levell’d mound.... ...lds With close-ranged chariots, and with thicken’d shields. Where the deep trench in length extended lay, Compacted troops stand wedged in firm array,... ...easts with fire. The Greeks repulsed, retreat behind their wall, Or in the trench on heaps confusedly fall. First of the foe, great Hector march’d alo...

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

...life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, ... ...everything was proceed- ing in the most ordinary way. A boy from the town, trench- ing on Smith’s monopoly, was selling papers with the afternoon’s ne... ...at we got to do is to go as near as the ground’ll let us, and then drive a trench.” “Blow yer trenches! You always want trenches; you ought to ha’ bee... ...lds in the hope of getting out of danger Londonward. People were hiding in trenches and cellars, and many of the survi- vors had made off towards Woki... ...e there, white and fresh amid the wreckage. Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so in- discriminate and so universal. And shin...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...which a usurper lived! Thus Dionysius was in constant dread. He had a wide trench round his bedroom, with a drawbridge that he drew up and put down wi... ...d to gather his men and lead them back; but the terror at this new mode of warfare had so mastered them, that they paid no attention to his call. Then... ...ay at nine at night, so that they might escape in the dark where the Roman trench had not yet extended. Then he distributed the cattle among his men, ... ...n on the Empire, hosts of brave men were still kept for this slavish mimic warfare—sport to the beholders, but sad earnest to the actors. Christianity... ...rts by which the Russian Czars have slowly been carrying on the aggressive warfare that has nearly absorbed into their vast dominions all the mountain... ...the first time to conduct a siege in the regular modern manner, by digging trenches in the earth, and throwing up the soil in front into a bank, behin... ...enings made through which to fire at some spot in the enemy’s walls. These trenches are constantly worked nearer and nearer to the fortifications, til... ...ear and cloud- less. The Tatars were on their walls, the Russians in their trenches; the Imperial eagle standard, which Ivan had lately assumed, float... ...lert, precise-looking old warrior, with the cuirass and gauntlets of elder warfare; the other, the very model of a cavalier, tall, easy, and graceful,...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

...hought that struck the bishop as a bullet might strike a man in an exposed trench, as he was hurrying through the cloisters to a special service and a... ...m enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expedition of the Bishop of Lon- don to hold open-air service... ...llery raging on the Dunajec as no man had ever seen before; whole lines of trenches dissolved into clouds of dust and heaps of blood-streaked earth; h... ... saw it on a map, yet every human detail showed. Over hundreds of miles of trenches east and west of Germany he could see shells burst- 116 The Soul ... ...ry probable death. The lad was in the infantry and going straight into the trenches. Love, death, God; this war was bringing the whole world back to e... ...e young by the wisdom of age, the fear of indiscipline which is so just in warfare and so foolish in education, the tremen- dous power of the propitia...

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