The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... shells , especially the high - explosive shells needed to destroy trenches and strongpoints . These deficiencies in guns and shells meant that the British generals had to rely on infantry armed only with rifles , far too few machine ...
... shells , especially the high - explosive shells needed to destroy trenches and strongpoints . These deficiencies in guns and shells meant that the British generals had to rely on infantry armed only with rifles , far too few machine ...
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... shells , large stocks of artillery ammunition could not be used through a lack of fuses , and the constant cries for artillery support sent back from the front - line infantry meant that existing stocks of fused shells , already ...
... shells , large stocks of artillery ammunition could not be used through a lack of fuses , and the constant cries for artillery support sent back from the front - line infantry meant that existing stocks of fused shells , already ...
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... shell two German defensive positions . To put the first point simply , a large number of the shells fired before 1 July did not explode . The fact that the Somme battlefield today , eighty years after the war's end , can still produce ...
... shell two German defensive positions . To put the first point simply , a large number of the shells fired before 1 July did not explode . The fact that the Somme battlefield today , eighty years after the war's end , can still produce ...
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