Resultados para "Primero lo Primero" en Ejército y guerra

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, mientras Europa se desangraba en los campos de batalla, Alfonso XIII se erigía como un faro de esperanza. Soberano de un país neutral, utilizó su influencia para aliviar el sufrimiento de miles de familias afectadas por el conflicto. A través de historias conmovedoras y detalladas investigaciones, el autor nos muestra las gestiones del monarca y del equipo de hombres y mujeres que trabajaron en el Palacio Real de Madrid junto a decenas de diplomáticos y militares españoles desplegados por los frentes de la contienda.

Anatomía del valor es un relato radical sobre los efectos psicológicos de la guerra narrados a través de vívidas observaciones de primera mano, así como de jugosas anécdotas. Al exponer el «metabolismo íntimo» de su propia mente y recordar sus experiencias como oficial médico en las trincheras durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, Lord Moran explora la verdadera naturaleza del valor en el frente.

La guerra del 1914-1918 fu il primo conflitto che coinvolse tutti i paesi d'Europa. Due possenti coalizioni, l'Intesa (Gran Bretagna, Francia e Russia) e gli imperi centrali (Germania e Austria-Ungheria), si misurarono in uno scontro tanto violento quanto logorante. In termini di costi economici e umani - nove milioni di morti - i quattro anni di combattimenti ebbero sulle potenze belligeranti un effetto disastroso.

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's increasing disillusion with war and his move toward pacifist and atheist beliefs. The final part consists of his powerful war poems, including God, How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men, and Night Patrol. West was killed by a sniper in 1917. In view of some of his poems, one wonders if death was not unwelcome.

My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook the sad mission to find John's grave but tragically never succeeded in his quest.

George S. Patton is one of the most controversial, celebrated, and popular military leaders in American history, and his accomplishments and victories have been greatly documented. Yet Patton spent years in the Army before garnering national attention and becoming a highly-regarded and respected military leader. This work explores Patton's beginnings as a driven and intrepid soldier and his battles leading up to the Great War - military experiences which would be influential in his development as a commander.

This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in his twenties, the untold story of the awkward archaeologist from Oxford who, on first visiting the East, fell in love with Arab culture and found his life's mission. Few people realize Lawrence's classic autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, was not the first book to carry that iconic title. Lawrence himself burned his original draft. Anthony Sattin here uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal.