The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... French before the war . Wilson's biographer , Callwell , does not conceal his opinion that his subject was entirely wrong in this episode . Field Marshal Kitchener was the Secretary for War ; moreover , he spoke good French . Kitchener ...
... French before the war . Wilson's biographer , Callwell , does not conceal his opinion that his subject was entirely wrong in this episode . Field Marshal Kitchener was the Secretary for War ; moreover , he spoke good French . Kitchener ...
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Robin Neillands. understood it , for Field Marshal French's language skills were extremely limited . In spite of this , French and Lanrezac withdrew into a side room for a private discussion , re - emerging swiftly when they realised ...
Robin Neillands. understood it , for Field Marshal French's language skills were extremely limited . In spite of this , French and Lanrezac withdrew into a side room for a private discussion , re - emerging swiftly when they realised ...
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... French people were prepared to do nothing for a year , there was little else he could do other than follow the ... Field Marshal French's resistance was also crumbling when it came to other issues . He offered to help France's front ...
... French people were prepared to do nothing for a year , there was little else he could do other than follow the ... Field Marshal French's resistance was also crumbling when it came to other issues . He offered to help France's front ...
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