The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Aisne came when his troops came under heavy fire from German 8 - inch howitzers hurried down from Maubeuge ( which had fallen some days before ) ' to support the German defensive position along the Aisne , our first experience of an ...
... Aisne came when his troops came under heavy fire from German 8 - inch howitzers hurried down from Maubeuge ( which had fallen some days before ) ' to support the German defensive position along the Aisne , our first experience of an ...
Page 106
... Aisne . This advance to the Aisne was the last piece of truly open warfare the Western Front was to see for the next three and a half years but although the German First and Second Armies had fallen back steadily from the Marne to the ...
... Aisne . This advance to the Aisne was the last piece of truly open warfare the Western Front was to see for the next three and a half years but although the German First and Second Armies had fallen back steadily from the Marne to the ...
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... Aisne fighting , and after some initial thrusts up the southern spurs of the German - held ridge , Field Marshal French ordered his men to dig in and hold their positions against the German attacks and the ever - increasing shellfire ...
... Aisne fighting , and after some initial thrusts up the southern spurs of the German - held ridge , Field Marshal French ordered his men to dig in and hold their positions against the German attacks and the ever - increasing shellfire ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 8 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassée battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Flesquières Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line II Corps infantry Joffre Kitchener La Bassée La Boisselle Lanrezac Le Cateau Lieutenant-General Lloyd George Loos losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plumer push Rawlinson Regiment reserves rifle Salient Schlieffen Plan Second Army sent shells Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff strongpoints tactics tanks Third Army took troops village Vimy Ridge Western Front wire Wood wounded yards Ypres