The Great War generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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User Review - aadyer - LibraryThingA difficult to access book that none the less has some real gems of both insight & fact. Broadly, sympathetic look @ command in the First World War, in particular, the group of Generals who had ... Read full review
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User Review - RobertMosher - LibraryThingRobin Neillands has written an interesting analytical study here on a number of the British generals of the First World War. Whether you agree with his conclusions are not, and it would seem at times ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 7 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Aisne Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassee battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Bullecourt Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canadian Division Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gheluvelt Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line III Corps infantry IV Corps Joffre Kitchener Lanrezac Lieutenant-General Lloyd George losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plan XVII 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