The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... wounded . As for strife between the front - line soldier and the staff , that has been going on for centuries - an ... wounded during the Great War . Ten were killed or wounded in the first five months of the war and no fewer than ...
... wounded . As for strife between the front - line soldier and the staff , that has been going on for centuries - an ... wounded during the Great War . Ten were killed or wounded in the first five months of the war and no fewer than ...
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... wounded German officer captured at Nonne Bosschen , who asked a British artillery officer , ' Where are your reserves ? ' The latter pointed wordlessly to the guns . The German then asked , ' And what is there behind ? " When he was ...
... wounded German officer captured at Nonne Bosschen , who asked a British artillery officer , ' Where are your reserves ? ' The latter pointed wordlessly to the guns . The German then asked , ' And what is there behind ? " When he was ...
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... wounded from the day before , marching toward German wire draped with British corpses , a sight to quell the most dauntless spirit . All the attacks failed . The 15th ( Scottish ) Division failed to retake Hill 70 . The 1st Division ...
... wounded from the day before , marching toward German wire draped with British corpses , a sight to quell the most dauntless spirit . All the attacks failed . The 15th ( Scottish ) Division failed to retake Hill 70 . The 1st Division ...
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