The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... ground north of the Somme , where the British were to launch their main offensive as part of what was still regarded as an Anglo - French affair . Haig now had a force of one and a half million men under command , organised in forty ...
... ground north of the Somme , where the British were to launch their main offensive as part of what was still regarded as an Anglo - French affair . Haig now had a force of one and a half million men under command , organised in forty ...
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... ground , breaking the low dikes along the drainage ditches , and creating deep shell holes . At midnight on the 30th the barrage took on a new ferocity and for the next three hours a tornado of shelling swept the German positions . The ...
... ground , breaking the low dikes along the drainage ditches , and creating deep shell holes . At midnight on the 30th the barrage took on a new ferocity and for the next three hours a tornado of shelling swept the German positions . The ...
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... ground to pull the British infantry in before the pillboxes and strongpoints , where they could be raked with machine - gun fire and pounded with artillery then driven back by strong counter - attacks against their flanks . Still the ...
... ground to pull the British infantry in before the pillboxes and strongpoints , where they could be raked with machine - gun fire and pounded with artillery then driven back by strong counter - attacks against their flanks . Still 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