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Sanjay Gupta. Publisher. Simon & Schuster. Publication date. October 5, 2021. ISBN. 978-1-982166-10-6. World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One is a 2021 book by Sanjay Gupta, published by Simon & Schuster.
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...
World War II. The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite the French Maginot Line, it stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am ...
The Maginot Line (French: Ligne Maginot, IPA: [lˈiɲ maʒinˈo]), (German: Maginot Linie, IPA: [mˈɑɡiːnˌoːt-lˈiːnɪə]) [1], named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.
The Wipers Times. The Wipers Times was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came across an abandoned printing press.
Trench magazine. A trench magazine (also known as a trench journal or trench periodical) describes a type of publication made by and for soldiers during the First World War while living in the trenches. These magazines appear solely within the time frame of World War I (1914-1918), and within Europe, with most being British, French, or German. [1]
Rank. Colonel. Service number. 11097. Commands. Leinster Regiment. Battles/wars. First World War. Colonel Francis Clere Hitchcock MC (1896–1962) [1] wrote Stand To—A Diary of the Trenches 1915–1918[2] about the activities of the second Leinster Regiment of the British Army in World War I.
Trench map. A map of trenches in the Lone Pine area of the Allied beachhead in Galipoli as of August 1915. A trench map shows trenches dug for use in war. This article refers mainly to those produced by the British during the Great War, 1914–1918 although other participants made or used them.. For much of the Great War, trench warfare was ...