The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Lieutenant - General Sir Douglas Haig , Major - General Henry Wilson and members of the General Staff . The purpose of these meetings was to decide what to do and there was considerable discussion of the various options , including a ...
... Lieutenant - General Sir Douglas Haig , Major - General Henry Wilson and members of the General Staff . The purpose of these meetings was to decide what to do and there was considerable discussion of the various options , including a ...
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... Major - General E.S. Bulfin , commanding one of Gough's divisions , was only the first of several officers who ... General Haig attributed the futile and tragic events of 1915 , at Neuve Chapelle and Loos , to a failure to commit the ...
... Major - General E.S. Bulfin , commanding one of Gough's divisions , was only the first of several officers who ... General Haig attributed the futile and tragic events of 1915 , at Neuve Chapelle and Loos , to a failure to commit the ...
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... Gen. von 495 Louis XV , King 105 Ludendorff , Major - Gen . Erich 10 , 95 Amiens , Battle of 495 ; Arras 342 ; background 306 ; British tactics 464 ; Chief of Operations Section , Gen. Staff 306 ; conferences with his generals 463 ...
... Gen. von 495 Louis XV , King 105 Ludendorff , Major - Gen . Erich 10 , 95 Amiens , Battle of 495 ; Arras 342 ; background 306 ; British tactics 464 ; Chief of Operations Section , Gen. Staff 306 ; conferences with his generals 463 ...
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