The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... wire before the German trenches , which had hardly been cut at all . By 0720 hours General Haking was reporting the situation to Corps HQ , asking for permission to commit 1 ( Guards ) Brigade , but adding that even if the entire 2nd ...
... wire before the German trenches , which had hardly been cut at all . By 0720 hours General Haking was reporting the situation to Corps HQ , asking for permission to commit 1 ( Guards ) Brigade , but adding that even if the entire 2nd ...
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... wire and taken casualties from machine - guns untouched by the previous days ' bombardments or by the gas . Now they were pinned in the open and ripe for slaughter , with enemy artillery and machine - guns raking no man's land , denying ...
... wire and taken casualties from machine - guns untouched by the previous days ' bombardments or by the gas . Now they were pinned in the open and ripe for slaughter , with enemy artillery and machine - guns raking no man's land , denying ...
Page 247
... wire were ' scared ' - a jibe which , apart from being grossly unfair overlooks the fact that if the German wire was uncut on the day of the attack , the men had every reason to be scared . In fact , some of this news did penetrate to ...
... wire were ' scared ' - a jibe which , apart from being grossly unfair overlooks the fact that if the German wire was uncut on the day of the attack , the men had every reason to be scared . In fact , some of this news did penetrate to ...
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