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Description:Soldiering On is the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., (1870-1963) is one of the most interesting figures in British military history. Like American General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, in the United States, who never became Commandant of the Marine Corps because of his outspoken views, General Gough never reached the apex of British military honours, i.e. a Field Marshal's baton and a peerage, because of his involvement in controversies. Irish by blood and upbringing, entering the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst before his eighteenth birthday, Gough served against Pathan clans in British ruled India in the 1890's - the same area where deviant Muslim fanatics of the Osama bin Laden ilk are active today in Pakistan. Gough then served in the Boer War in South Africa, where, according to noted British historian Sir Arthur Bryant in his Introduction to this book, Gough "was the first officer of General Buller's relieving force to enter Ladysmith-an occasion which, following weeks of anxiety, defeat and humiliation, thrilled the entire nation." Continuing his professional military career in the British Isles, in early 1914 Gough became the central figure of the almost civil war evoking "Curragh Mutiny" in Ireland, in which Gough was threatened with a court martial. During World War I, Gough served with great valor and skill on the Western Front, as successively commander of a Brigade, a Division, a Corps, and then of the Fifth Army, where again his career became steeped in controversy. On March 21, 1918, General Gough's Fifth Army bore the brunt of the German Operation Michael offensive, and the supposed failure of his army to hold the line and stem the German advance led to his dismissal from the command of the Fifth Army. The actual facts were different, as General Sir Hubert Gough himself says: "As for the 'retreat' of the Fifth Army, this in fact was a clearly defined manoeuvre and foreseen. Several hundred bridges over the Somme and other small streams had been prepared for demolition weeks before the attack." (p. 178). Present day British journalist and historian, Andrew Roberts, has succinctly verified the truth about the Fifth Army controversy, vindicating General Sir Hubert Gough: "The reason why the Germans did not break through to Paris, as by all the laws of strategy they ought to have done, was the heroism of the Fifth Army and its utter refusal to break," as Lord Birkenhead did before him in his statement: "If one soldier more than another was directly responsible for our victory that year, that soldier was General Gough." In 1919, General Gough traveled to the Black Sea region, visiting Georgia, Azerbaizhan, and Novorosisk in Russia. Later that year General Gough was appointed head of the Allied Military Mission on the Baltic, where he had to cope with the arrogant General Rudiger von der Goltz as well as the Soviet Army in their separate, but parallel, efforts to prevent the independence of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, for as General Gough states, "independence for the Baltic States was the only sensible and realistic policy..." (p.201) In the 1920's and 1930's retired General Gough visited Poland and Lithuania in Eastern Europe, and Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and other parts of Africa, among many places. In World War II he helped organize Home Guard units in Great Britain Punch said of Soldiering On, "...interesting...the distinctive character of the British people is revealed." The Times (London) said General Gough's book "...contains much of current interest." Anyone interested in military science, world affairs, and specific areas of interest such as Ireland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus, Africa or the Indic sub-Continent. should read this book.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soldiering On. To get started finding Soldiering On, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Soldiering On is the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., (1870-1963) is one of the most interesting figures in British military history. Like American General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, in the United States, who never became Commandant of the Marine Corps because of his outspoken views, General Gough never reached the apex of British military honours, i.e. a Field Marshal's baton and a peerage, because of his involvement in controversies. Irish by blood and upbringing, entering the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst before his eighteenth birthday, Gough served against Pathan clans in British ruled India in the 1890's - the same area where deviant Muslim fanatics of the Osama bin Laden ilk are active today in Pakistan. Gough then served in the Boer War in South Africa, where, according to noted British historian Sir Arthur Bryant in his Introduction to this book, Gough "was the first officer of General Buller's relieving force to enter Ladysmith-an occasion which, following weeks of anxiety, defeat and humiliation, thrilled the entire nation." Continuing his professional military career in the British Isles, in early 1914 Gough became the central figure of the almost civil war evoking "Curragh Mutiny" in Ireland, in which Gough was threatened with a court martial. During World War I, Gough served with great valor and skill on the Western Front, as successively commander of a Brigade, a Division, a Corps, and then of the Fifth Army, where again his career became steeped in controversy. On March 21, 1918, General Gough's Fifth Army bore the brunt of the German Operation Michael offensive, and the supposed failure of his army to hold the line and stem the German advance led to his dismissal from the command of the Fifth Army. The actual facts were different, as General Sir Hubert Gough himself says: "As for the 'retreat' of the Fifth Army, this in fact was a clearly defined manoeuvre and foreseen. Several hundred bridges over the Somme and other small streams had been prepared for demolition weeks before the attack." (p. 178). Present day British journalist and historian, Andrew Roberts, has succinctly verified the truth about the Fifth Army controversy, vindicating General Sir Hubert Gough: "The reason why the Germans did not break through to Paris, as by all the laws of strategy they ought to have done, was the heroism of the Fifth Army and its utter refusal to break," as Lord Birkenhead did before him in his statement: "If one soldier more than another was directly responsible for our victory that year, that soldier was General Gough." In 1919, General Gough traveled to the Black Sea region, visiting Georgia, Azerbaizhan, and Novorosisk in Russia. Later that year General Gough was appointed head of the Allied Military Mission on the Baltic, where he had to cope with the arrogant General Rudiger von der Goltz as well as the Soviet Army in their separate, but parallel, efforts to prevent the independence of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, for as General Gough states, "independence for the Baltic States was the only sensible and realistic policy..." (p.201) In the 1920's and 1930's retired General Gough visited Poland and Lithuania in Eastern Europe, and Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and other parts of Africa, among many places. In World War II he helped organize Home Guard units in Great Britain Punch said of Soldiering On, "...interesting...the distinctive character of the British people is revealed." The Times (London) said General Gough's book "...contains much of current interest." Anyone interested in military science, world affairs, and specific areas of interest such as Ireland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus, Africa or the Indic sub-Continent. should read this book.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soldiering On. To get started finding Soldiering On, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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