The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Western Front figures given approach even 1 million dead . Critics are asked to note that I do not say ' only ' 510,821 or ' only ' 488,000 , or ' only ' 564,715 I am not dismissing these totals ; every death is one too many and a great ...
... Western Front figures given approach even 1 million dead . Critics are asked to note that I do not say ' only ' 510,821 or ' only ' 488,000 , or ' only ' 564,715 I am not dismissing these totals ; every death is one too many and a great ...
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... Western Front . Except on the Russian front , where fighting ceased before the end of 1917 , action continued in other theatres until the end of the war - notably Italy , Palestine and Mesopotamia , and the Balkans , while the Allied ...
... Western Front . Except on the Russian front , where fighting ceased before the end of 1917 , action continued in other theatres until the end of the war - notably Italy , Palestine and Mesopotamia , and the Balkans , while the Allied ...
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... Western Front during the Great War , was that the tactics of the time were dominated by defensive weapons , most specifically by a combination of barbed wire , artillery and machine - guns . This was the problem faced by any attacking ...
... Western Front during the Great War , was that the tactics of the time were dominated by defensive weapons , most specifically by a combination of barbed wire , artillery and machine - guns . This was the problem faced by any attacking ...
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