Deeds of a Great Railway: A Record of the Enterprise and Achievements of the London and North-western Railway Company During the Great WarJ. Murray, 1920 - 217 páginas |
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... enemy hordes , thousands of whom advancing in close formation were made blindly to bite the dust . Eagerly the newspapers were bought up ; every fresh message ticked off on the " tape " was greedily devoured . A French success in Alsace ...
... enemy hordes , thousands of whom advancing in close formation were made blindly to bite the dust . Eagerly the newspapers were bought up ; every fresh message ticked off on the " tape " was greedily devoured . A French success in Alsace ...
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... enemy , " and the childish display of wrathful indignation evinced by Wilhelm the ( would - be ) Conqueror , who is credited with having slapped with his gauntlet the face of an all too - zealous staff officer , bearer of so displeasing ...
... enemy , " and the childish display of wrathful indignation evinced by Wilhelm the ( would - be ) Conqueror , who is credited with having slapped with his gauntlet the face of an all too - zealous staff officer , bearer of so displeasing ...
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... enemy forces had been veiled , no more than a few brief hours sufficed to disclose ; disillusion quickly supervened . " Our intelligence . . . thought that at least three German corps ( roughly 150,000 men ) 1 were advancing upon us ...
... enemy forces had been veiled , no more than a few brief hours sufficed to disclose ; disillusion quickly supervened . " Our intelligence . . . thought that at least three German corps ( roughly 150,000 men ) 1 were advancing upon us ...
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... enemy pressure increased rather than relaxed . The following narrative set down by an eye - witness , temporarily en panne during the afternoon and evening of August 27th on the outskirts of the little provincial town of Ham , depicts ...
... enemy pressure increased rather than relaxed . The following narrative set down by an eye - witness , temporarily en panne during the afternoon and evening of August 27th on the outskirts of the little provincial town of Ham , depicts ...
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... enemy offensive , large forces had been kept at home , if merely as a precautionary measure . True enough , a certain degree of material damage accompanied not infrequently by a sufficiently heavy toll of human , and usually civilian ...
... enemy offensive , large forces had been kept at home , if merely as a precautionary measure . True enough , a certain degree of material damage accompanied not infrequently by a sufficiently heavy toll of human , and usually civilian ...
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Página 206 - They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Página 16 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Página 28 - It is my royal and Imperial command that you concentrate your energies, for the immediate present, upon one single purpose, and that is that you address all your skill and all the valour of my soldiers to exterminate first the treacherous English and to walk over General French's contemptible little Army.
Página 138 - The horror of the shell-hole area of Verdun was surpassed. It was no longer life at all. It was mere unspeakable suffering. And through this world of mud the attackers dragged themselves, slowly, but steadily, and in dense masses. Caught in the advanced zone by our hail of fire they often collapsed and the lonely man in the shell-hole breathed again.
Página 6 - This assurance is of course subject to the policy of His Majesty's Government receiving the support of Parliament, and must not be taken as binding His Majesty's Government to take any action...
Página 6 - ... it would be fatal to the honour and security of the United Kingdom to hesitate in supporting France and Russia at the present juncture, and we offer our unhesitating support to the Government in any measures they may consider necessary for that object.
Página 115 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 91 - And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song, And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Página 7 - But this I know is true — after the guarantee given that the German fleet would not attack the coast of France or annex any French territory, I would not have been party to a declaration of war, had Belgium not been invaded, and I think I can say the same thing for most, if not all, of my colleagues. If Germany had been wise, she would not have set foot on Belgian soil. The Liberal Government then would not have intervened. Germany made a grave mistake.
Página 152 - At this grave moment in our national history I send to you, and through you to the officers and men of the fleets of which you have assumed command, the assurance of my confidence that under your direction they will revive and renew the old glories of the royal navy, and prove once again the sure shield of Britain and of her empire in the hour of trial.