The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Force to France at once , six infantry divisions and a cavalry division , but this decision was soon overturned by the newly appointed Secretary of State for War , Kitchener , who felt that Britain should keep some units of the Regular ...
... Force to France at once , six infantry divisions and a cavalry division , but this decision was soon overturned by the newly appointed Secretary of State for War , Kitchener , who felt that Britain should keep some units of the Regular ...
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... Force - proved to be the right man in the right place at this time . He served his country well in 1914-16 , and ... force that needed to work with the French Army in order to fight at all : The force under your control [ French was ...
... Force - proved to be the right man in the right place at this time . He served his country well in 1914-16 , and ... force that needed to work with the French Army in order to fight at all : The force under your control [ French was ...
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... Force Academy , Camberra , Simkins address 490-1 ; military archive 491-2 ; Official History 397 Australian Army commander of BEF 290 Corps see Birdwood ; Monash ; Rawlinson divisions 1st 271-3 , 370 , 490-1 , 495 ; 2nd 272-3 , 490-1 ...
... Force Academy , Camberra , Simkins address 490-1 ; military archive 491-2 ; Official History 397 Australian Army commander of BEF 290 Corps see Birdwood ; Monash ; Rawlinson divisions 1st 271-3 , 370 , 490-1 , 495 ; 2nd 272-3 , 490-1 ...
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