Books with author Sir Henry Newbolt

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.

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

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

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