Free Download The Shiny Seventh: The 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at War, 1915-1918
English | 2024 | ISBN: 085155069X | 289 Pages | PDF | 28 MB
The Shiny Seventh was an ordinary Kitchener battalion, a body of men raised for the duration of the war, forming part of an ordinary county regiment. They saw extraordinary things and performed extraordinary actions as part of 18th (Eastern) Division, one of the most consistently successful British divisions on the Western Front. This is their story as told by their successive adjutants in the official War Diary. It tells of the drudgery of the trenches, fatigues, entertainment and endless training, including that of the newly arrived Americans in 1918. It also chronicles a rare success on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, confusion at Arras, dash and gallantry at Ypres, endurance during the great retreat of March 1918 and a final 'backs to the wall' fight in front of Amiens that was instrumental in safeguarding the position of the entire British army in France and thus the outcome of the war itself. The personal diary of one of its subalterns, Henry Cartwright, is included as an appendix, courtesy of his great nephew, along with descriptions of the battlefields today and details of places visited and casualties suffered by this extraordinary, ordinary battalion.

Free Download John Hartley, "6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War"
English | 2011 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1848843283 | EPUB | 181,2 mb
The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held "white collar" positions employed by the City's legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas in September 1914, taking with it many new recruits who would undertake their basic training whilst the Battalion formed part of the British garrison in Egypt.

Free Download The Hood Battalion By Leonard Sellers
2005 | 345 Pages | ISBN: 0850523869 | PDF | 8 MB
The author traces many first-hand accounts and original illustrations to trace the story of Winston's Little Army, the Hood Battalion, through the idealism, bravery and subsequent tragedies of World War I.

Free Download Black Hearts and Painted Guns: A Battalion's Journey into Iraq's Triangle of Death (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ14Y7DS | 2024 | 7 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Kelly Eads, Daniel S. Morgan
Narrator: David Bendena

Free Download Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Revised Edition (Audiobook)
English | April 07, 2020 | ASIN: B0813XCX9B | M4B@128 kbps | 10 hours | 566 MB
Author: Christopher R. Browning | Narrator: Kevin Gallagher
"A remarkable - and singularly chilling - glimpse of human behavior...This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust." (Newsweek)

English | January 09, 2018 | ASIN: B074XKGNYS | MP3 | M4B | 21h 10m | 524.04 MB
Author: Django Wexler

Tanks for the Memories: The 712th Tank Battalion in World War II by Aaron Elson
English | October 30, 2021 | ISBN: 0972733078 | 390 pages | EPUB | 9.98 Mb
Aaron Elson bought a tape recorder in 1980 to preserve his father's war stories. He forgot it when he visited his dad in the hospital, and figured he would take it next time. Two weeks later, there would never be a next time. Seven years later he found a newsletter from the 712th Tank Battalion addressed to his dad and wrote to it asking if anybody remembered Lieutenant Elson. He got a letter back inviting him to a reunion, which he went to in 1987. The rest is history. Oral history.

Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War by Robert A. Rosenstone
English | April 30, 2009 | ISBN: 1412809975, 1138521612 | True EPUB/PDF | 428 pages | 6.2/20.9 MB
Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number were not Communists; their activism was inspired by domestic and international crises of the 1930s, and colored by idealism.

English | ASIN: B09KSZD783 | 2021 | 7 hours and 49 minutes |MP3|M4B | 214 MB
The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 percent, were either killed or wounded. J. L. McWilliams and R. James Steel chart the history of this battalion from when it was formed on November 7, 1914 through all of its major battles, including the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Hundred Days Offensive and breaking through the Hindenburg Line, to when it was finally disbanded at the end of the war. Rather than focus simply on the grand strategies of generals, McWilliams and Steel use numerous personal accounts, both written at the time and afterwards, to depict what life was life for the regular soldier of the 46th Battalion during these treacherous years spent in muddy trenches in France and Belgium.