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02950pam a2200253 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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019256537 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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UkOxU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20160926154606.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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160926s2011 enkhac f b 000 0 eng c |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780857040848 (hbk.) : |
| Terms of availability |
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| 038 ## - RECORD CONTENT LICENSOR |
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| Record content licensor |
Uk |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
StDuBDS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
StDuBDS |
| Modifying agency |
Uk |
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WlAbNL |
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IeDuRDS |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
357.1094 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Butler, Simon, |
| 9 (RLIN) |
116245 |
| Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The war horses : |
| Remainder of title |
the tragic fate of a million horses in the First World War / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
[Simon Butler ; with a foreword by Frank Kitson]. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Wellington : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Halsgrove, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
144 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.), facsims. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 x 26 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Bibliography: p. 143-144. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Horse Power -- A Kingdom for a Horse -- Horses and Power and War -- Off to Fight the Foe -- Into the Valley of Death -- The Pity of War -- Home -- The Perfection of Nature -- Bibliography |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"It is estimated that ten million fighting men, almost 800 000 of them British, died in the First World War. Only a fraction of those who were killed have a known grave; thousands were simply blown into fragments or lie buried, their graves unknown, in foreign soil. Alongside this tide of human cannon fodder was formed an equally large army of horses and mules - transport animals and cavalry mounts essential to the bloody business ahead. While men cheerfully volunteered in their tens of thousands, similar numbers of horses were being stripped from farms, liveries, hunt stables, and from private ownership, packed on to ships and sent overseas. Over 8 million animals were thus engaged in the war worldwide. On the Western Front over a million horses died. Of the total in use by the British Army alone, themselves numbering almost a million, only around 60,000 are said to have been returned to the Britain at the war's end. <br/><br/>This book tells the story of the part these animals played in the war, and of the consequences of the conflict which later led to the decline of horses in the British landscape and the final fracturing of a timeless bond between man and the working horse. It concentrates upon those groups of animals who were requisitioned rather than those 'professionally' employed by the cavalry, in other words the horses and mules who took on the drudgery of heaving rations, guns and munitions up to the front line, returning with wounded and maimed men. It contrasts the lives the animals would have known in peacetime with the conditions they were thrust into in and around the lines of battle. It draws upon photographs and personal accounts to illustrate the actuality of war and the part played by the horse in that madness described as 'the War to End all Wars' " -- Inner Sleeve |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
War horses |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| 9 (RLIN) |
116243 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
World War, 1914-1918 |
| General subdivision |
Cavalry operations. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
116244 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Loanable Book |