The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... German Army outclassed every other army on the Western Front for much of the war ... but at a price . For this was the kind of army that only a society dedicated to militarism and conquest can produce . Countries like Britain , which ...
... German Army outclassed every other army on the Western Front for much of the war ... but at a price . For this was the kind of army that only a society dedicated to militarism and conquest can produce . Countries like Britain , which ...
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... German Second Army entered on 5 August . The city itself was abandoned on the following day , but Liège was surrounded by a network of fortifications and many of these still held out . It took six days to bring up the siege cannon and ...
... German Second Army entered on 5 August . The city itself was abandoned on the following day , but Liège was surrounded by a network of fortifications and many of these still held out . It took six days to bring up the siege cannon and ...
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... German forces across the British front and realised that the BEF was facing not just one powerful German army - which would have been bad enough - but two . Though the weather on 18 October was poor , restricting visibility and limiting ...
... German forces across the British front and realised that the BEF was facing not just one powerful German army - which would have been bad enough - but two . Though the weather on 18 October was poor , restricting visibility and limiting ...
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