The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... line could be reinforced , trained in the correct tactics and supplied with heavy guns , the German line was impregnable . Until that time the BEF went on the defensive and endured the mud , misery and steady losses of men from shelling ...
... line could be reinforced , trained in the correct tactics and supplied with heavy guns , the German line was impregnable . Until that time the BEF went on the defensive and endured the mud , misery and steady losses of men from shelling ...
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... German line , by the long shoulder of Aubers Ridge . Today , cloaked with trees and dotted with houses , Aubers Ridge is easy to overlook but in 1915 any piece of higher ground was vital , as had been proved in the Salient . Aubers ...
... German line , by the long shoulder of Aubers Ridge . Today , cloaked with trees and dotted with houses , Aubers Ridge is easy to overlook but in 1915 any piece of higher ground was vital , as had been proved in the Salient . Aubers ...
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Robin Neillands. Line ' , the German title should have provided an indication of what the Germans were doing . A stellung is a position , line or earthworks , and especially one heavily fortified - and the defences the Germans were ...
Robin Neillands. Line ' , the German title should have provided an indication of what the Germans were doing . A stellung is a position , line or earthworks , and especially one heavily fortified - and the defences the Germans were ...
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