The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Kitchener was on the active Army List , the most senior officer of the British Army on that list after Field Marshal Lord Roberts , VC , and as a result Asquith's choice was to cause problems . Kitchener was an autocrat , a man used to ...
... Kitchener was on the active Army List , the most senior officer of the British Army on that list after Field Marshal Lord Roberts , VC , and as a result Asquith's choice was to cause problems . Kitchener was an autocrat , a man used to ...
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... Kitchener was homosexual ; he had been disappointed in love early in life and after that rebuff had devoted himself entirely to the service . This dedication to his Army career had proved profitable , for his path been strewn with ...
... Kitchener was homosexual ; he had been disappointed in love early in life and after that rebuff had devoted himself entirely to the service . This dedication to his Army career had proved profitable , for his path been strewn with ...
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... Kitchener was in uniform ; since Kitchener was the senior field marshal , French took this as an attempt to ' pull rank ' . Kitchener then informed French that he wished to visit the BEF and inspect the condition of the troops , a ...
... Kitchener was in uniform ; since Kitchener was the senior field marshal , French took this as an attempt to ' pull rank ' . Kitchener then informed French that he wished to visit the BEF and inspect the condition of the troops , a ...
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