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Author : Brig-Gen Sir J E Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1845747283
Author : Robert A. Doughty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 067401880X
As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favoring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts around the periphery of the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires and eventually break the enemy's defenses. But France did not have sufficient resources to push the Germans back from the Western Front and attack elsewhere. The offensives they launched proved costly, and their tactical and operational methods ranged from remarkably effective to disastrously ineffective. Using extensive archival research, Doughty explains why France pursued a multi-front strategy and why it launched numerous operations as part of that strategy. He also casts new light on France's efforts to develop successful weapons and methods and the attempts to use them in operations. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, Pyrrhic Victory is destined to become the standard account of the French army in the Great War.
Author : Nick Lloyd
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465074907
In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued—known as the Hundred Days Campaign—saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe. In Hundred Days, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the endgame of World War I, showing how the timely arrival of American men and materiel—as well as the bravery of French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers—helped to turn the tide on the Western Front. Many of these battle-hardened troops had endured years of terror in the trenches, clinging to their resolve through poison-gas attacks and fruitless assaults across no man's land. Finally, in July 1918, they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater. Using surprise attacks, innovative artillery tactics, and swarms of tanks and aircraft, they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion: the Hindenburg Line, a formidable network of dugouts, barbed wire, and pillboxes. After a massive assault, the Allies broke through, racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace. An epic tale ranging from the ravaged fields of Flanders to the revolutionary streets of Berlin, Hundred Days recalls the bravery and sacrifice that finally silenced the guns of Europe.
Author : Sir James Edward Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015014331071
Author : Sir James Edward Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:B3480014
Author : David Kenyon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844682362
An in-depth look at the contributions of the British cavalry during World War I. Of what use was the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of the industrial age, by the machine gun and massed artillery, the cavalry was seen as an anachronism. It was vulnerable to modern armaments, of little value in combat and a waste of scarce resources. At least, that is the common viewpoint. Indeed, the cavalry have been consistently underestimated since the first histories of the Great War were written. But, in light of modern research, is this the right verdict? David Kenyon seeks to answer this question in his thought-provoking new study. His conclusions challenge conventional wisdom on the subject—they should prompt a radical reevaluation of the role of the horseman on the battlefields of France and Flanders a century ago. Using evidence gained from research into wartime records and the eyewitness accounts of the men who were there—who saw the cavalry in action—Kenyon reassesses the cavalry’s contribution and performance. He offers insight into cavalry tactics and the spirit of the cavalrymen of the time. He also examines how the cavalry combined with the other arms of the British army, in particular the tanks. His well-balanced and original study is essential reading for students of the Western Front and for anyone who is interested in the long history of cavalry combat.
Author : Sir James Edward Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : PSU:000020587642
Author : T.H.E. Travers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134902699
This important and sometimes controversial book explains what part the British Expeditionary Force played in bringing the First World War to an end. Travers focuses on the themes of command and technology, drawing on a wide range of sources.
Author : Alistair McCluskey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472820327
From 26 September until 8 October 1918, the Allied armies in France launched their largest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. The British, French, American and Belgian armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders. At the centre of this huge assault the British, First, Third and Fourth Armies, led by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, breached the formidable Hindenburg Line defences and drove the Kairser's Army from its last fully prepared defensive position west of the German border. The impact of this defeat had a shattering effect on the Germans with their army admitting for the first time that an armistice was required to save it from annihilation. Although these decisive results were to a large extent consequences of the battle of the Hindenburg Line, the subsequent controversies over the conduct of the war meant that it went unheralded and has remained Haig's forgotten triumph.
Author : Andrew Green
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0714684309
In this volume, Andrew Green examines the progress by which the Official Histories of World War I was written, the motives and influences of its paymasters, and the literary integrity of its historians.
Author : Jonathan Boff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024281
An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front.
Author : Albert Palazzo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803287747
Palazzo's study is convincing in demonstrating that the British military command was not, contrary to the common belief, unwilling to adapt innovations in technology for use on the battlefield."-Virginia Quarterly Review.
Author : J. P. Harris
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0719048141
Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939. Great Britain was the nation which first developed the tank, first used it in action and first gained dramatic results by employment. The British continued to be world leaders in the field of mechanised warfare until the early 1930s. Now available in paperback for the first time, J. P. Harris original work offers new interpretations of the early history of British armoured forces and explains why Great Britain had lost the lead by the outbreak of the Second World War. This work will be of interest to all those concerned with British military history in the first half of the twentieth century, with the history of mechanised warfare and with the history of military thought.
Author : Douglas E. Delaney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191009655
How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to get it? Douglas E Delaney seeks to answer these questions to understand whether the imperial army project was successful. Answering these questions requires a long-term perspective — one that begins with efforts to fix the armies of the British Empire in the aftermath of their desultory performance in South Africa (1899-1903) and follows through to the high point of imperial military cooperation during the Second World War. Based on multi-archival research conducted in six different countries, on four continents, Delaney argues that the military compatibility of the British Empire armies was the product of a deliberate and enduring imperial army project, one that aimed at standardizing and piecing together the armies of the empire, while, at the same time, accommodating the burgeoning autonomy of the dominions and even India. At its core, this book is really about how a military coalition worked.
Author : Gary Sheffield,Peter Gray
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441199522
In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air service, from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Until recently, British histories of the First World War have tended to concentrate on the earlier battles of 1916 and 1917 and often underplayed this vitally important period. Changing War fills this significant gap in our knowledge by providing in-depth examinations of key aspects of the operations of the British Army, the Royal Air Force and its antecedents in the climactic year of the First World War. Written by a group of established historians and emerging scholars it sheds light not only on 1918, but on the revolutionary changes in warfare that took place at that time.
