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    Over 100 Facts WW1
    Over 100 Facts WW1
    Over 100 Facts WW1
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    Over 100 Facts WW1

    By Neil Michael O'Mara

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    The First World War seems to have touched almost every family in Britain. Most people will have had a relative in their family tree that served in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. Unfortunately this is no longer living memory but has slipped into recorded history. There is now resurgence in interest as the centenary is commemorated and many people realize they know so little about the war that was supposed to end all wars. How did it start? Why was Britain involved? Who were our allies? What were the major battles? The reader will find this concise book valuable in grasping many of the important facets of the war. Spread across different continents were many different armies fighting for one alliance or another. This book attempts to give a flavour of the scale of war giving facts about people, their battles and their weapons of war and of course the human tragedy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Authors
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781783333868
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      Over 100 Facts WW1 - Neil Michael O'Mara

      Title Page

      OVER 100 FACTS WW1

      Neil Michael O’Mara

      Publisher Information

      Publisher Information

      Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      The right of Neil Michael O’Mara to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998

      Copyright © 2013 Neil Michael O’Mara

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      Dedication

      In Memory of my Great Uncle

      William Isaac Caddick

      Died of Wounds 24th May 1918

      Aged 19

      Introduction

      Until 1945 the First World War was referred to as the Great War. Great, that it was unprecedented in its intercontinental spread of fighting and where casualties were on an incomprehensive scale. What started as a local crisis with an assassination of an Archduke, nations soon moved to mobilise their armies like a chain of dominoes. A series of alliances developed this crisis into a terrible conflict which history had thus far never recorded. Initially army numbers swelled for many reasons, patriotism and adventure or simply for three regular meals a day. In Britain commentators reported it

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