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Eyewitness, Being Personal Reminiscences Of Certain Phases Of The Great War,
Including The Genesis Of The Tank [Illustrated Edition]
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eBook - ePub
Eyewitness, Being Personal Reminiscences Of Certain Phases Of The Great War,
Including The Genesis Of The Tank [Illustrated Edition]
About this book
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent by the war Minister Lord Kitchener in 1914, his reporting home was the only way for the British people to follow the war as journalists were at that time banned at the front. In these dispatches from the front Swinton told the public of the bloody fighting in Flanders and the heroic efforts of the Allies to stop the German Juggernaut. The miserable conditions and bloody siege warfare of the trenches left a lasting impression on him and he looked to a scientific solution to the muddy stalemate of the Western Front. He would gain lasting fame as the architect of the "tank" project that was to revolutionize warfare in the First World War and for many years thereafter. In this volume of reminiscences he traces his involvement in the early years of the war and his later years as the driving force in the development and adoption of the tank.
Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent by the war Minister Lord Kitchener in 1914, his reporting home was the only way for the British people to follow the war as journalists were at that time banned at the front. In these dispatches from the front Swinton told the public of the bloody fighting in Flanders and the heroic efforts of the Allies to stop the German Juggernaut. The miserable conditions and bloody siege warfare of the trenches left a lasting impression on him and he looked to a scientific solution to the muddy stalemate of the Western Front. He would gain lasting fame as the architect of the "tank" project that was to revolutionize warfare in the First World War and for many years thereafter. In this volume of reminiscences he traces his involvement in the early years of the war and his later years as the driving force in the development and adoption of the tank.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- DEDICATION
- DER AUGENZEUGE
- FOREWORD
- Illustrations
- PROLOGUE - “Das Panther Tier Von Agadir…” - [July, 1911]
- CHAPTER I - THE SENSITIZED PLATE - [1900-1914]
- CHAPTER II - The Gear-Box - RAILWAYS AND JOURNALISM [August-September, 1914]
- CHAPTER III - [September-October, 1914]
- CHAPTER IV - A RAY OF LIGHT [October, 1914]
- CHAPTER V - The First and Second Seeds “YPRES, 1914” - [October-December, 1914]
- CHAPTER VI - The Third Seed - MACHINE GUNS AND WIRE [January-March, 1915]
- CHAPTER VII - The Fourth Seed - MORE MACHINE GUNS AND WIRE [April-May, 1915]
- CHAPTER VIII - The Fifth Seed - THE PASSING OF EYEWITNESS [June-July, 1915]
- CHAPTER IX - The Home Front-“Open Sesame” - WHITEHALL GARDENS [July-December, 1915]
- CHAPTER X - A GREAT DAY [January-February, 1916]
- CHAPTER XI - Back to the Army - ARMAMENTS BUILDING-SIBERIA-BULL HOUSE [March-April, 1916]
- CHAPTER XII - The Secret Area - “WITH CARE TO PETROGRAD” [April-June 1916]
- CHAPTER XIII - Elveden - THE CRUSADERS - [June-August, 1916]
- CHAPTER XIV - THE SECRET REVEALED [August-September, 1916]
- CHAPTER XV - THE CARAVAN PASSES ON - [October, 1916]
- CHAPTER XVII - Three Dates - [November, 1917-October, 1918]
- CHAPTER XVIII - Under Way - THE AWAKENING OF A GIANT
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II