The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... WOOD Guedecourte Transloy Flers HIGH WOOD Lesbouefs MASH VALLEY Contaimaison la Boisselle . SAUSAGE VALLEY Bazentin le Petit Bazentin Longueval Ginchy MAMETZ WOOD le Grand CATERPILLAR VALLEY TRONES WOOD LEUZE WOOD Guillemont Montauban ...
... WOOD Guedecourte Transloy Flers HIGH WOOD Lesbouefs MASH VALLEY Contaimaison la Boisselle . SAUSAGE VALLEY Bazentin le Petit Bazentin Longueval Ginchy MAMETZ WOOD le Grand CATERPILLAR VALLEY TRONES WOOD LEUZE WOOD Guillemont Montauban ...
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... Wood and High Wood in the ensuing weeks , was only to be expected . This cannot detract from the fact that their second line had been breached , and that the ground taken in Rawlinson's attack was held . However , in the Great War there ...
... Wood and High Wood in the ensuing weeks , was only to be expected . This cannot detract from the fact that their second line had been breached , and that the ground taken in Rawlinson's attack was held . However , in the Great War there ...
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... Wood , but the ' male ' tank was swiftly knocked out and without the fire of its six - pounders the other tanks and the infantry were unable to take La Folie Château in the middle of the wood . The rest of the tanks swept on to Fontaine ...
... Wood , but the ' male ' tank was swiftly knocked out and without the fire of its six - pounders the other tanks and the infantry were unable to take La Folie Château in the middle of the wood . The rest of the tanks swept on to Fontaine ...
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