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Author : Randal Gray
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114352086
This title describes how, using new "Storm Trooper" units and high-mobility tactics, the German Operation Kaiserschlacht shattered the front line, broke into open country and came within a hair's breadth of winning the First World War.
Author : Christopher Davies Publishers, Limited,Randal Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0717276686
Author : Gilbert Alan Shepperd,Mark Healy,Philip J. Haythornthwaite,Randal Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : France
ISBN : 0717276783
Author : G.H.F. Nichols
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473833562
George Nichols was an artillery officer serving with the 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded in 1917, and returned to the guns in March 1918, just in time to experience the fury of the Kaiserschlacht, the great German offensive designed to knock the British army out of the war. Nichols wrote a powerful account of the Kaiser's last great offensive battle from inside the eye of the storm, and it is one of the few primary source accounts which are told from the often overlooked perspective of the British artillerymen. Nichols, with wonderful British reserve, records how the men of the Royal Field Artillery steadfastly manned their guns. Nichols survived the onslaught and in 1919, was able to produce a full account of both the retreat and the British counter-attack which won back the lost ground. First published in 1919, while censorship was still in force, this wonderful primary source has long been out of print and it's welcome return makes for essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Great War.
Author : Ian Passingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000110577164
Covers the last months of 1917, the Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle) in early 1918, to the final Allied offensive known as 'The Hundred Days' to end the war in August 1918.
Author : A. A. G. Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717876323
It is 1918 and the Germans are planning one last roll of the dice. They think they will win the Great War. The Knaves have other ideas... In the early months of 1918 both British and German forces are exhausted, but the war to end all wars shows little sign of abating. Until, that is, the Kaiser decides to give it one last roll of the dice. Determined to stop him, the allies call upon the Knaves, a crack team of covert operations and intelligence-gathering operatives drawn originally from the Pals regiments of the north-east of England. Yet as the Knaves risk life and limb to carry out the strategic sabotage required and gather intelligence vital to the war effort, back in Blighty the politicians are getting involved -- and that's not always a good thing. As political ambitions clash with military expertise, the Knaves see at first hand what the effects of war -- of starvation, exhaustion, constant distress and imbalances of power -- can do to fighting men. As the German war machine gathers momentum, will the Knaves manage to stop it with subterfuge, or are there forces much closer to home that will do the job for them, albeit rather more brutally? Pals War: Kaiserschlacht, the Spring Offensive paints an unflinching and highly accurate portrait of the Great War, focusing particularly on the strategic and practical elements of its final year, when the very nature of war changed forever. It is bound to appeal to fans of modern and military history, particularly those who have read other titles in the author's 'Pals War' series of novels. Praise for AAG Whitehead "You truly get a sense of the stupidity of politicians dabbling in military matters. Great action as our boys, out-numbered and out-gunned, hold back the flood of Imperial Germany" -- Bob Clarke Andy Whitehead was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire and originally trained in engineering, then spent many years in the fire service. He has written several novels, largely on historical themes, including the Pals War series and Passchendaele Calling, all of which are set during Word War I.
Author : Jerry Murland
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592670
The German Spring offensive or Kaiserschlacht was a period of great danger for the Allies. Both sides were exhausted after years of bitter fighting and huge losses. While eventually catastrophically unsuccessful and the prelude to their final defeat, the Germans forced the Allies back over hard-won ground until the tide turned.??Historian Jerry Murland has researched and visited the scenes of desperate actions during late March 1918. He describes in graphic detail the battles fought by British, Irish and South African regiments in the area from St Leger in the North to La Fere in the South. He unearths the extraordinary stories of unit and individual courage. He also examines the work of the Royal Engineers who blew bridges and disrupted lines of communication. ??This original approach covers battles that in many cases have only been described briefly in official histories. The book is a useful companion for any battlefield visitor.
Author : George H. F. Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:927127689
Author : Matthias Strohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472829351
In 2018, the world will be commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War. In many ways, 1918 was the most dramatic year of the conflict. After the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Germans were able to concentrate their forces on the Western Front for the first time in the war, and the German offensives launched from March 1918 onward brought the Western Allies close to defeat. Having stopped the German offensives, the Entente started its counter-attacks on all fronts with the assistance of fresh US troops, driving the Germans back and, by November 1918, the Central Powers had been defeated. This new study is a multi-author work containing ten chapters by some of the best historians of the First World War from around the world writing today. It provides an overview and analysis of the different levels of war for each of the main armies involved within the changing context of the reality of warfare in 1918. It also looks in detail at the war at sea and in the air, and considers the aftermath and legacy of the First World War.
Author : Martin Marix Evans
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788284271
At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war. Victory could only be gained by the immediate application of overwhelming force in new tactical form; the 'fire-waltz' artillery barrage and the storm-trooper infantry attack. 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft, and argues that this reached a level of sophistication in command and control never before achieved. The war of attrition was far from over, but as more Americans arrived in France the ghastly cost became affordable. For the Germans, it became a question of whether they could negotiate an armistice before their armies were utterly destroyed.
Author : David T. Zabecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134252251
This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He presents his findings here for the first time, with a thorough review of the surviving original operational plans and orders, to offer a wealth of fresh insights to the German Offensives of 1918. David T. Zabecki clearly demonstrates how the German failure to exploit the vulnerabilities in the BEF’s rail system led to the failure of the first two offensives, and how inadequacies in the German rail system determined the outcome of the last three offensives. This is a window into the mind of the German General Staff of World War I, with thorough analysis of the German planning and decision making processes during the execution of battles. This is also the first study in English or in German to analyze the specifics of the aborted Operation HAGEN plan. This is also the first study of the 1918 Offensives to focus on the ‘operational level of war’ and on the body of military activity known as ‘the operational art’, rather than on the conventional tactical or strategic levels. This book will be of great interest to all students of World War I, the German Army and of strategic studies and military theory in general.
Author : Ian Passingham
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781599129
The author of All the Kaiser’s Men provides “a very helpful reference . . . to the battles which finally led to the German Army’s defeat in the field.” —The Western Front Association Few pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918. It was a momentous period, which began with Germany’s desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. Ian Passingham’s graphic new study draws on a wide range of original German, British and French sources, and it features previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs. He boldly reassesses German military doctrine, the strategic thinking behind the offensives and the effectiveness of the stormtroop tactics used. He also considers how the poor state of German military morale and the privations and unrest of the German people contributed to the army's defeat.
Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241274224
A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end of the war the British had lost an extraordinary 36,000 aircraft and 16,600 airmen. The RAF was created in 1918 as a revolutionary response to this new form of warfare - a highly contentious decision (resisted fiercely by both the army and navy, who had until then controlled all aircraft) but one which had the most profound impact, for good and ill, on the future of warfare. Richard Overy's superb new book shows how this happened, against the backdrop of the first bombing raids against London and the constant emergency of the Western Front. The RAF's origins were as much political as military and throughout the 1920s still provoked bitter criticism. Published to mark the centenary of its founding this is an invaluable book, filled with new and surprising material on this unique organization.
Author : Ian Hall
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783060948
Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great European War in 1914, Achievement is a guide to the war on which the future of Europe turned. Ian Hall’s fascinating book examines the social, political and military circumstances of the previous 200 years, it considers the conditions that allowed one nation, Germany, to justify a war in continental Europe on a scale never before possible, sending more than eighty army divisions to invade its neighbours in what can be described as the first industrial war. Achievement also examines why Britain, at that time one of the world’s greatest industrial and Imperial powers, could send only six divisions to join the party and wonders at the accomplishment of expanding such a force to more than fifty divisions just four years later. The book’s journey includes visiting the history of the nations of Britain and continental Europe, encouraging us to wonder at the empty splendour of European monarchies, allowing us to explore the foothills of the Industrial Revolution. It also makes one or two diversions into the by ways of history to remind us of events that have shaped Britain and its place in the world. The British army, from its most senior commanders down, make appearances throughout. The decisions to be faced and examples of the courage of the fighting men and the casualties that resulted are all considered in this encompassing commentary on the Great War.
Author : Alex Potter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473822702
In 1914 Torquay was the crown jewel of the English Riviera, long the haunt of the rich and famous but this status was not to last. The Great War of 1914-1918 brought a shuddering end to this golden period in amongst the blood and mud of the Western Front as hundreds of Torquinians gave their lives in the fight against the Kaiser. This book documents the town's experience, both militarily and socially through the extensive use of previously unpublished letters from those who served, by following the career of General Sir Herbert Plumer, commander of the British Second Army and native Torquinian and by featuring a detailed analysis of the home front throughout the war. In doing so it challenges many of the war's myths including the idea of war enthusiasm in 1914, widespread opposition to the war and the old myth of lions led by donkeys. In doing so it reveals the extent to which even a small town such as Torquay contributed to the war effort and how much the war permanently changed Torquay.