Chris_Baker Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 OH YES I DID ! ...and from you, personally, at the GWFC last year . Your account of what happened to those Portuguese whetted my appetite to find out more. Phil (PJA) That's good! To be honest I am not sure that there would be enough on the Portuguese to fill a full size book. There is virtually nothing of any merit existing in English, and in researching I had to polish up my Portuguese to read the official accounts and some archival material. I give a talk on their story, which of course reaches a terrible crescendo on 9 April 1918, and there is much of interest in political terms (why they were sent, why they were all but abandoned in France, etc), but not a huge lot to say militarily. Other than the Lys, their time was mainly in training and then some cold months of trench holding, livened by some raids - which really would need work in archives in Portugal. The Portuguese also provided a detachment of heavy artillery, of which again there is very little significant mention in English or French but I suspect would not fill too many chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 Some thing on fighting in China in 1914 would be good ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 Histories of: 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) The Inniskillings (6th Dragooons) 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 That's good! To be honest I am not sure that there would be enough on the Portuguese to fill a full size book. All honour to you for what you've done, here, Chris. What I actually had in mind was a book about the triumvirate of the tokens....comparing the experiences of all three. Like the Portuguese, the Italians underwent the ordeal of facing the initial blast of a huge German offensive; as for the Russians in the Nivelle Offensive, I know little, but have been led to believe that their contingent was badly bloodied in the fighting. I visited the Portuguese cemetery at Neuve Chapelle, and the Italian one at Sans- Soupir on the Aisne. Another memorial caught my eye near Souchez : commemorating the ordeal of a Czech contingent that was incorporated into the Fench army. Here I am, envisaging a book, but I'm all talk ! I don't have the discipline to knuckle down to the task.....I'm just an avid consumer of other peoples' efforts. But I do feel that my idea has some merit. A more cosmopolitan aspect would enhance the literature. Phil (PJA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 The female snipers of Gallipoli German machine-gunners chained to their gun Neil I'd buy several of these as gifts especially with an appendix on reversed bullets as anti tank weapons. Austro Hungarian campaign. The French campaign 1915-1918. Royal Artillery for Idiots. German home politics. A modern description of GHQ day to day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 11 February , 2012 Share Posted 11 February , 2012 Great War Generalship for Dummies (a companion volume to Great War Generals Were Dummies) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 29 February , 2012 Author Share Posted 29 February , 2012 An alphabetical guide to trench names and their locations would be nice khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Wills Posted 29 February , 2012 Share Posted 29 February , 2012 That's already been done khaki. It's called Rats Alley A former discussion: Annoying gaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaki Posted 29 February , 2012 Author Share Posted 29 February , 2012 That's already been done khaki. It's called Rats Alley A former discussion: Annoying gaps Thanks for the 'lead' khaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kath Posted 29 February , 2012 Share Posted 29 February , 2012 Living in a seaside town myself I know what an important role fishermen played but many fishing fleets were decimated by the war and many boats (therefore livelihoods) were destroyed or sunk. This merits further investigation. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Fishermen-Against-the-Kaiser/p/2290/ Fishermen Against the Kaiser Volume 1 Shockwaves of War 1914-1915 Douglas d'Enno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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