Books with author Sir Henry John Newbolt

Sir Henry Newbolt was a historian of great repute, a poet of renown and an authority on military matters; he was chosen to write for the British Government on many occasions including on the official Naval History of the Great War. He was also a member of the Propaganda Department of the Government, he wrote this book from actual incidents to illustrate the gallantry and victories of the British Army and Navy to generate public support for the war effort. From the seaborne battles with the German raider the Emben to the major battle at Jutland, to the battles in France and Flanders at Mons, Ypres and the Loos.A very worthwhile read

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It is never easy to fix upon one cause as the origin of a great war, and the war of 1914 was the outcome of several causes combined. For twenty years there had been growing up in Europe a sense of insecurity; the great Powers had become restless and suspicious of one another . . . (Excerpt) The British Army during World War I fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, its units were made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts—at the beginning of the conflict. Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and German counterparts. Yet the army showed exemplary valour and courage on the battlefield. Buchan and Newbolt bring their expert analysis into their overview of the Great War and the reasons for it. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. With the outbreak of the First World War, Buchan worked as a correspondent in France for The Times. Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a very powerful role as a government adviser. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".

THE CAUSES OF THE WARA BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WARTHE TURN AT THE MARNETHE WORCESTERS AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRESTHE CANADIANS AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRESTHE TAKING OF LOOSDELVILLE WOODTHE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRESTHE TANKS AT CAMBRAITHE SOUTH AFRICANS AT MARRIÈRES WOODTHE BATTLE OF THE LYSTHE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNETHE BEGINNING OF THE ENDTHE AUSTRALIANS AT MONT ST. QUENTINTHE LAST BATTLETHE LANDING AT GALLIPOLITHE DEPARTURE FROM GALLIPOLITHE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEMALLENBY'S GREAT DRIVETHE SILENT SERVICECORONELTHE FALKLANDSMYSTERY SHIPSJUTLANDTHE BRITISH SUBMARINE SERVICETHE BRITISH SUBMARINE SERVICE (continued)THE MERCANTILE MARINE AND FISHING FLEETSZEEBRUGGEBEHIND THE LINES AND AT HOMETHE LAST DAYLOOKING BACKWARDField-Marshal Sir John French (Earl of Ypres)Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (Earl Haig of Bemersyde)Marshal FochField-Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby (Viscount Allenby of Megiddo)Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa)Admiral Sir David Beatty (Earl Beatty of the North Sea)Field-Marshal Earl KitchenerThe Critical Day in the First Battle of YpresThe Second Battle of YpresBattle of Loos: Advance to Loos and Hill 70Battle of the Somme: Longueval and Delville WoodCambrai: the Advance of the Infantry DivisionsThe Second Battle of the Marne.First Stages of the last Allied OffensiveThe Landing Beaches at GallipoliEvacuation of the Gallipoli PeninsulaPalestine: the Decisive BattleBattle of CoronelBattle of the Falkland IslandsBattle of Jutland: Track ChartZeebrugge.The Front on the Eve of the Allied Offensive, and on the Day of the Armistice

This carefully crafted ebook: "Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."It is never easy to fix upon one cause as the origin of a great war, and the war of 1914 was the outcome of several causes combined. For twenty years there had been growing up in Europe a sense of insecurity; the great Powers had become restless and suspicious of one another . . ." (Excerpt)The British Army during World War I fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, its units were made up exclusively of volunteers—as opposed to conscripts—at the beginning of the conflict. Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and German counterparts. Yet the army showed exemplary valour and courage on the battlefield. Buchan and Newbolt bring their expert analysis into their overview of the Great War and the reasons for it.John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. With the outbreak of the First World War, Buchan worked as a correspondent in France for The Times.Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862–1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a very powerful role as a government adviser. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".

Excerpt from The Book of the Happy WarriorThose are the Laws of Chivalry, the rules which the heroes of these stories vowed never to break. While men continue to fight, these rules, and these alone, can save the weaker from slavery and the stronger from universal hatred and moral ruin. Our ancestors knew this, and took care to hand on the truth to us. At the end of the book you will find two chapters in which I have tried to show how the tradition has been kept to the present day. The old method of training the young squires to knighthood produced our public school system, which is not at all the same as the monastic system. The monastic kind of school aimed at making clerics or learned men, and it was as much like a juvenile monastery as possible. The public school, on the other hand, has derived the housemaster from the knight to whose castle boys were sent as pages; fagging, from the services of all kinds which they there performed prefects, from the senior squires, or masters of the henchmen athletics, from the habit of out-door life; and the love of games, the sporting or amateur View of them, from tourna ments and the chivalric rules of war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The First World War was, for Britain, as much about Imperial conflict, as it was about fighting on the Western front.Hundreds of millions of colonial subjects were forced into the war, and made a huge difference to the strength of the British army.In this fascinating study, Henry Newbolt and John Buchan take a general overview of the First World War, from its causes to the aftermath, with the focus on the central role played by both Britain and its colonies.They cover the major campaigns on the Western Front – Ypres, Loos, Cambrai, Marrières Wood and the Marne, as well as the battles fought around the globe – in particular Galipolli and the capture of Jerusalem - and the main campaigns at sea.Days to Remember is a vivid and fascinating account of the struggles and achievements of the British Empire in the First World War.Henry Newbolt was born in Wolverhampton in 1862, and went on to become a poet, novelist and historian. He was also a very powerful government adviser.John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who also served as Governor General of Canada. During the First World War he worked for the British War Propaganda Bureau. He is most famous for his classic thriller, The 39 Steps.

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PART I.INTRODUCTORY.DAYS TO REMEMBER.CHAPTER I.THE CAUSES OF THE WAR.It is never easy to fix upon one cause as the origin of a great war, and the war of 1914 was the outcome of several causes combined. For twenty years there had been growing up in Europe a sense of insecurity; the great Powers had become restless and suspicious of one another, and one Power, Germany, was seriously considering the possibility of some bold stroke which would put her beyond the reach of rivalry. Germany, since her victory over France in 1870, had become a very great and rich nation; she had spread her commerce over the world; and she was anxious to create an empire akin to those of Britain and France. But she began the task too late in the day; she could succeed only at the expense of her neighbours. The ambition of Germany was, therefore, one perpetual source of danger.Another danger was her nervousness, which frequently accompanies ambition. There was an alliance between France and Russia, and a growing friendliness between Britain and France, and Germany feared that her rivals were combining to hem her in and put a stop to what she considered her natural development. Russia had fallen very low after the war with Japan, but was rapidly recovering both in wealth and armed strength. France was making strenuous efforts to increase her army, so that she should not be at a disadvantage as compared with the far greater population of Germany. Britain had no ambitions of conquest; her aim was the peaceful development of her Empire. But that was an oversea Empire, and she required a large navy; and the size of this navy seemed to Germany to be a menace to her future.

Henry Newbolt is best known for writing poetry that heralded his native England during the reign of Queen Victoria and the early twentieth century. In addition to poetry, Newbolt wrote novels and criticism while enjoying the company of other leading literary figures of the time, such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. The lines “Play up! play up! and play the game,” from his poem, “Vitai Lampada,” immortilized Newbolt in the hearts of his fellow countrymen. These words, according to Coulson Kernahan, author of Six Famous Living Poets, were a call to all men and women to defend their country in an hour of need. These famous lines demand that “in life’s battle-field [sic], whether a battle-field only figuratively, or a battle-field in reality to play the game.” Newbolt once lamented those very same words, as their popularity had come to haunt him everywhere he traveled and lectured.