Ralph bagnold (42 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. New Ed. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Condizione: Fine. Reprint. A new book that spent some time on a bookshop shelf. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 228 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Stiff clean crisp book.; 5.75 X 0.5 X 8.75 inches; 228 pages.

Condizione: New. pp. 288 Illus., Maps.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: New. pp. 288, Maps.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condizione: New. While Ralph Bagnold is well known as being the founder of the Long Range Desert Group in 1940 and author of The Physics of Blown Sands and Desert Dunes in 1941, there is little published material relating to his earlier life. These memoirs were written in 1919 but never published.After the outbreak of war in 1914 Bagnold enlisted in the Royal Engineers, trained at Woolwich and Chatham, and set foot as a young subaltern in France in July 1915. Bagnold's unit - the 83rd Field Company attached to the 20th Division - was based at Laventie in France from October 1915 to January 1916 and it is there that he begins to recount his front-line experiences. Being an engineer, he was typically billeted several miles behind the line, moving up each night to work in the trenches and in no man's land. In February 1916 Bagnold and his men moved to Ypres but in July 1916 they marched southwards to the Somme.The four chapters detailing his experiences on the Somme are the lynchpin of the memoir. Initially struck by the vastness of the enterprise and hopeful of success, Bagnold's perspective begins to change and, as the enormous offensive drags on, he begins to comprehend the impossibility of a decisive victory.Many of Bagnold's observations are vivid and evocative, often connecting with broader themes. What did the first tanks look like and how effective were they? What does it feel like to don a gas helmet or to suffer partial inhalation of poisonous gas? What do front line soldiers think of the Staff? What sort of lives did the tunnellers lead? The narrative brings us closer to such things.A Sapper Officer's War ends amid the bitter fighting near Passchendaele. Arguably the abruptness of this ending resonates with the single and final experience of many.…

Condizione: New. pp. 288.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 209 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 232 pages. 1.18x6.14x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. xxii + 265 Illus.

Condizione: New.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 3 working days.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Soft cover book some moderate wear to cover and book edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Front-line impressions expose a sapper officer's wartime experiences in France and Ypres, detailing trench life, gas, tunnellers, and the Somme's grinding reality.While Ralph Bagnold is well known as being the founder of the Long Range Desert Group in 1940 and author of The Physics of Blown Sands and Desert Dunes in 1941, there is little published material relating to his earlier life. These memoirs were written in 1919 but never published.After the outbreak of war in 1914 Bagnold enlisted in the Royal Engineers, trained at Woolwich and Chatham, and set foot as a young subaltern in France in July 1915. Bagnold's unit - the 83rd Field Company attached to the 20th Division - was based at Laventie in France from October 1915 to January 1916 and it is there that he begins to recount his front-line experiences. Being an engineer, he was typically billeted several miles behind the line, moving up each night to work in the trenches and in no man's land. In February 1916 Bagnold and his men moved to Ypres but in July 1916 they marched southwards to the Somme.The four chapters detailing his experiences on the Somme are the lynchpin of the memoir. Initially struck by the vastness of the enterprise and hopeful of success, Bagnold's perspective begins to change and, as the enormous offensive drags on, he begins to comprehend the impossibility of a decisive victory.Many of Bagnold's observations are vivid and evocative, often connecting with broader themes. What did the first tanks look like and how effective were they What does it feel like to don a gas helmet or to suffer partial inhalation of poisonous gas What do front line soldiers think of the Staff What sort of lives did the tunnellers lead The narrative brings us closer to such things.A Sapper Officer's War ends amid the bitter fighting near Passchendaele. Arguably the abruptness of this ending resonates with the single and final experience of many.…

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: New. pp. 310.

Condizione: Very Good.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM THIS book results from an attempt to explain on a basis of experimental physics some of the many strange phenomena produced by the natural movement of sand over the dry land of the Earth. The subject is but one aspect of a far wider problem which is still very imperfectly grasped-the transport of solid particles of any kind by fluids in general. Here the difficulty has been, and still is, that no one branch of science has attempted to deal with the problem as a whole, or to co-ordinate the vast amount of piecemeal work by students of different outlook in many unrelated fields. The carriage of silt by rivers has received a great deal of attention from engineers. But owing to the difficulties of direct measurement, to the expense and labour of conducting full-scale experiments, and to a failure to find agreement as to the basic quantities upon which a theoretical edifice may be built, the published results are far from satisfactory. Little has emerged except empirical formulae; and these are rarely capable of reliable application to conditions other than those under which they were evolved. The drifting of snow is of direct interest to transport authorities in many countries, to meteorologists engaged in the study of rainfall, to ski-runners and to mountaineers. Yet no means has been found whereby the precipitation can be gauged, or the rate of drift related to the strength of the wind.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. While Ralph Bagnold is well known as being the founder of the Long Range Desert Group in 1940 and author of The Physics of Blown Sands and Desert Dunes in 1941, there is little published material relating to his earlier life. These memoirs were written in 1919 but never published.After the outbreak of war in 1914 Bagnold enlisted in the Royal Engineers, trained at Woolwich and Chatham, and set foot as a young subaltern in France in July 1915. Bagnold's unit - the 83rd Field Company attached to the 20th Division - was based at Laventie in France from October 1915 to January 1916 and it is there that he begins to recount his front-line experiences. Being an engineer, he was typically billeted several miles behind the line, moving up each night to work in the trenches and in no man's land. In February 1916 Bagnold and his men moved to Ypres but in July 1916 they marched southwards to the Somme.The four chapters detailing his experiences on the Somme are the lynchpin of the memoir. Initially struck by the vastness of the enterprise and hopeful of success, Bagnold's perspective begins to change and, as the enormous offensive drags on, he begins to comprehend the impossibility of a decisive victory.Many of Bagnold's observations are vivid and evocative, often connecting with broader themes. What did the first tanks look like and how effective were they? What does it feel like to don a gas helmet or to suffer partial inhalation of poisonous gas? What do front line soldiers think of the Staff? What sort of lives did the tunnellers lead? The narrative brings us closer to such things.A Sapper Officer's War ends amid the bitter fighting near Passchendaele. Arguably the abruptness of this ending resonates with the single and final experience of many.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Pale grey staple-bound printed wraps 23 x 29cm. v + 37pp with 15 figures and 1 table. Wraps very good with wear to extremities and a tear. Binding secure. Pages very good, lightly tanned with light creasing. Former Imperial College London copy with the following marks: 2 stamps (over-stamped "Withdrawn") to cover and title, and barcode to front. LRDG founder and Libyan Sands author Ralph Bagnold was closely associated with Imperial. His research there from 1935 culminated in his "Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes" (1941). He then studied the transport of solids by water, working closely with the US Geological Survey, to which this work relates. He was elected a Fellow of Imperial in 1971.…

Condizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0816512116.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy of the first edition; spine of dust jacket slightly faded; founder of Long Range Desert Group.