Index, ill, maps, p.614.non-fictionTwo men came to personify generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery for the British and Erwin Rommel for the Germans. In the span of a few years, they fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theaters of war. Ever since, historians have assessed their leadership, personalities, and skill. Born four years apart, the two men followed a remarkably similar trajectory. Military historian Peter Caddick-Adams explores their lives, beginning with their provincial upbringing and the brutal trench fighting of World War I--where both nearly died. Obsessed with fitness and training, the future field marshals emerged with glowing records. They taught in staff colleges, wrote infantry textbooks, and fought each other as divisional commanders in 1940 before taking charge of their respective armies as the war raged on. This first comparative biography of these two soldiers explores how each was "made" by their war leaders, Churchill and Hitler, and how their strategies permeate down to today's armies.generals - germany - biography, generals - great britain - biography

Index, bib, ill, map, p.230.non-fictionThis is a study of Sir Ian Hamilton VCs command of the Gallipoli campaign. Appointed by Kitchener after the failure of the initial Allied naval offensive in the Dardanelles, Hamilton was to lead the ambitious amphibious landings that were intended to open the way to Constantinople. In the event, however, opportunities immediately after the landings were squandered and, in the face of unexpectedly effective Turkish resistance, soon stalled in attritional trench warfare like that on the Western Front. Hamilton has often been criticized for this failure and in many ways seen to typify the stereotype of a British general clinging to outdated Victorian thinking. Yet this fresh reappraisal, drawing on original archival research, shows that Hamilton did display some progressive ideas and a realization that warfare was rapidly changing. Like all generals of this period he faced the challenge of unprecedented technological and tactical revolution as well as the political and media battle.world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - gallipoli, generals - great britain - biography

Index, ill, maps, p.320.non-fictionCovers Major-General David Belchem career from joining the British Army in 1930 to 1950. He started his career in the Royal Tank Regiment and served in Egypt and Palestine prior to WW2. After the disaster of Greece was posted to General Montgomery's Staff prior to El Alamein and remained with him during the North African campaign. Planning for Invasion of Sicily, Sicily campaign, Italy and then returns to the UK to work with Monty planning Overlord. Was on Montys Staff during the invasion and until the surrender. generals - great britain - biography, david belchem - biography

p.252.An account of the time of General Gordon in Chinachina - history, generals - great britain - biography

Ill, p.288.non-fictionThe life and times of Lord Kitchenergenerals - great britain - biography, great britain - history - military

Ill, maps, p.384.non-fictionA biography of Lord Kitchenersudan - history, generals - great britain - biography

Index, ill, maps, p.543.non-fictionThe life and times of Lord Roberts of Kandahargenerals - great britain - biography, india - british occupation

Ill, p.288.non-fictionReminisces of the personal servant of Earl Haigworld war 1914-1918 - campaigns - france, generals - great britain - biography

Index, ill, maps, p.488.non-fictionA biography of Lord Wavellgenerals - great britain - biography, world war 1939-1945 - campaigns - north africa

Index, ill, maps, p.456.non-fictionAutobiography of British Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, who saw action in India, the Second Boer War, and World War I.generals - great britain - biography, world war 1914-1918 - campaigns - france

Index, ill, maps, p.274.non-fictionThe life and times of General Sir Reginald Wingategenerals - great britain - biography, sudan - history

Ill, p.122.non-fictionThe life and times of Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwellboy scouts - history, generals - great britain - biography

Ill, maps, 3.v, non-fictionBiography of Lord Kitchenergenerals - great - britain - biography, world war - 1914-1918 - history

front cover has a coloured photo of a dummy dressed in the uniform of a third year Alfred Hospital student nurse, with various nursing paraphernalia. Title and author's name also on front cover and spine. Synopsis of book and author information on back cover. Black and white illustrations within non-fictionA light hearted look at nursing in general, and patients in particular, when nurses were hospital trained.nurse-australia-biography, nurse-great britain-biography

front cover has a coloured photo of a dummy dressed in the uniform of a third year Alfred Hospital student nurse, with various nursing paraphernalia. Title and author's name also on front cover and spine. Synopsis of book and author information on back cover. Black and white illustrations within non-fictionA light hearted look at nursing in general, and patients in particular, when nurses were hospital trained.nurse-australia-biography, nurse-great britain-biography

Index, ill, maps, p.370.non-fictionA biography of general Allenbyworld war 1914-1918 - personal recollections, great britain - foreign relations - egypt

Ill, p.495.non-fictionA history school bookgreat britain - history, examination questions - schools

Hard cover book. Author: Cecil Howard Publisher: Hutchinson & Co Date: 1957 Further Information: Hardcover bound with dust cover intact with portrait frontispiece lettering in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.non-fictionMary Kingsley is a popular biography of Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862–1900), the English explorer, travel writer, and self-taught ethnographer known for her solo travels through West Africa (Sierra Leone, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon) in 1893–95. She collected zoological specimens for the British Museum, wrote sympathetically about African religions, law, and customs that challenged many contemporary European prejudices of the time, and published two influential books of her own: Travels in West Africa (1897) and West African Studies (1899). She died of typhoid while nursing Boer prisoners during the Second Boer War in 1900. Howard's book retells her life and travels for a general readership, and descriptions call it a lively account drawn from "the raciest and most exciting passages" of her own travel writing, tracing her journeys along the Ogowe River and through West African swamps.shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, warrnambool, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, mary kingsley, cecil howard