The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... attack is an immediate counter- attack but Falkenhausen had fallen into the trap that had engulfed Field Marshal French at Loos , and kept his reserve divisions too far back . By the time he could assess the effect of the British attack ...
... attack is an immediate counter- attack but Falkenhausen had fallen into the trap that had engulfed Field Marshal French at Loos , and kept his reserve divisions too far back . By the time he could assess the effect of the British attack ...
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... counter - attack ) - were kept in close support , to counter - attack and retake any lost ground . In the event , as at Arras and Vimy Ridge , these Eingriff divisions were kept too far back to intervene successfully after the first ...
... counter - attack ) - were kept in close support , to counter - attack and retake any lost ground . In the event , as at Arras and Vimy Ridge , these Eingriff divisions were kept too far back to intervene successfully after the first ...
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... counter - attack divisions . The only elements lacking on the German side were tanks , which they had not developed , and cavalry forces , which they had run down , but this was largely compensated for by a skilful use of aircraft . The ...
... counter - attack divisions . The only elements lacking on the German side were tanks , which they had not developed , and cavalry forces , which they had run down , but this was largely compensated for by a skilful use of aircraft . The ...
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