The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... ( Haig as Military Commander , 1973. ) Haig's views on cavalry , if disparaged today , were received with respect in 1906 , and he came to be considered as both a thinking soldier and a coming man . On returning to England in 1906 he was ...
... ( Haig as Military Commander , 1973. ) Haig's views on cavalry , if disparaged today , were received with respect in 1906 , and he came to be considered as both a thinking soldier and a coming man . On returning to England in 1906 he was ...
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... Haig also took care to bask in French's public approval , as expressed in the latter's letters and dispatches from France , and also gently to fan the flames of French's antagonism against Haig's colleague and rival , General Sir Horace ...
... Haig also took care to bask in French's public approval , as expressed in the latter's letters and dispatches from France , and also gently to fan the flames of French's antagonism against Haig's colleague and rival , General Sir Horace ...
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... Haig's enemies have trawled the accounts of the time - diaries , memoirs , articles , letters to find evidence against him , carefully ignoring the other side of the story . Dancocks relates two incidents that show another facet of his ...
... Haig's enemies have trawled the accounts of the time - diaries , memoirs , articles , letters to find evidence against him , carefully ignoring the other side of the story . Dancocks relates two incidents that show another facet of his ...
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