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John Ellis’s Followers (20)
John Ellis
Born
in Bradford, Yorkshire, England
January 01, 1945
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Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
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1976
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19 editions
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The Social History of the Machine Gun
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1975
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17 editions
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The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II
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published
1980
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15 editions
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Cassino: The Hollow Victory: The Battle for Rome January-June 1944
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1984
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6 editions
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Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War
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1990
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5 editions
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World War II: A Statistical Survey: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants
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1993
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4 editions
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One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944
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published
1998
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3 editions
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Cavalry: The History of Mounted Warfare
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published
2004
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9 editions
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Blackpool at War: A History of the Fylde Coast During the Second World War
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2013
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7 editions
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
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“Your dispatch is received, and if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in reply that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the states of the South, as in violation of the Constitution, and as a gross usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina.”
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“A French officer . . . felt that there was a reverse correlation between xenophobia and proximity to the enemy:
Hatred of the enemy diminished as one passed from the interior to the front, where it tapered still more as one went from staffs to field headquarters, from headquarters to batteries, from batteries to the battalion command post, and finally from there to the infantryman in the trench and observation sap, where it reached its lowest ebb.
Or, as C.E. Mentague put it, rather more tersely: "War hath no fury like a noncombatant.”
― Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
Hatred of the enemy diminished as one passed from the interior to the front, where it tapered still more as one went from staffs to field headquarters, from headquarters to batteries, from batteries to the battalion command post, and finally from there to the infantryman in the trench and observation sap, where it reached its lowest ebb.
Or, as C.E. Mentague put it, rather more tersely: "War hath no fury like a noncombatant.”
― Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
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