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Author : Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Messines, Battle of, 1917
ISBN : WISC:89100114271
Author : United States. Army War College, Washington, D.C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B74191
Author : Great Britain. Army. Corps, IX.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:7762425
Author : Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:17672992
Author : Great Britain. Army. Army, Second
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Messines, Battle of, Belgium, 1917
ISBN : OCLC:7762425
Author : Ninth,Great Britain Army Corps,Army War College (U S )
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1378506081
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Author : Ian Passingham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752483658
'Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography.' So said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German position on Messines Ridge. The explosion was heard by Lloyd George in Downing Street, and as far away as Dublin. Until 1918, Messines was the only clear cut Allied victory on the Western Front, coming at a time when Britain and her allies needed it most: boosting Allied morale and shattering that of the Germans. Precisely orchestrated, Messines was the first true all-arms modern battle which brought together artillery, engineers, infantry, tanks, aircraft and administrative units from a commonwealth of nations to defeat the common enemy. So why is its name not as familiar as the Somme, Passchendaele or Verdun? This book examines the battle for the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge from the British, ANZAC and German perspectives. Illustrated with archive photographs and maps, it is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the seminal battles of the First World War.
Author : United States. Army war college, Washington D. C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Messines, Battle of, Belgium, 1917
ISBN : UOM:39015053244920
Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Author : Sanders Marble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954709
In the popular imagination, the battle fields of the Western Front were dominated by the machine gun. Yet soldiers at the time were clear that artillery - not machine guns - dictated the nature, tactics and strategy of the conflict. Only in the last months of the war when the Allies had amassed sufficient numbers of artillery and learned how to use it in an integrated and coherent manner was the stalemate broken and war ended. In this lucid and prize-winning study, the steady development of artillery, and the growing realisation of its primacy within the British Expeditionary Force is charted and analysed. Through an examination of British and Dominion forces operating on the Western Front, the book looks at how tactical and operational changes affected the overall strategy. Chapters cover the role of artillery in supporting infantry attacks, counter-battery work, artillery in defence, training and command and staff arrangements. In line with the 'learning curve' thesis, the work concludes that despite many setbacks and missed opportunities, by 1918 the Royal Artillery had developed effective and coordinated tactics to overcome the defensive advantages of trench warfare that had mired the Western Front in bloody stalemate for the previous three years.
Author : Peter Chasseaud
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750984904
When first published in 2006, Rats Alley was a ground-breaking piece of research, the first-ever study of trench names of the Western Front. Now, in this fully updated and revised second edition, the gazetteer has been extended to well over 20,000 trench names, complete with map references – in itself an essential tool for any First World War researcher. However, combined with the finely considered history and analysis of trench naming during the First World War, this is an edition that no military history enthusiast should be without. Discover when, how and why British trenches were first named and follow the names’ fascinating development throughout the First World War, alongside details of French and German trench-naming practices. Looked at from both contemporary and modern points of view, the names reveal the full horror of trench warfare and throw an extraordinary sidelight on the cultural life of the period, and the landscape and battles of the Western Front. Names such as Lovers Lane, Idiot Corner, Cyanide Trench, Crazy Redoubt, Doleful Post, Furies Trench, Peril Avenue, Lunatic Sap and Gangrene Alley can be placed in context. With useful information on where original trench maps are held, and how to obtain copies, Rats Alley is a vital volume for both military and family historians.
Author : Gary Sheffield
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834668
Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today, and this selection of his outstanding essays on the First World War is essential reading for anyone who is keen to broaden their understanding of the subject. For three decades, in a series of perceptive books and articles, he has examined the nature of this war from many angles from the point of view of the politicians and the high command through to the junior officers and other ranks in the front line. Command and Morale presents in a single volume a range of his shorter work, and it shows his scholarship at its best.Among the topics he explores is the decision-making of the senior commanders, the demands of coalition warfare, the performance of Australian forces, the organization and the performance of the army in the field, the tactics involved, the exercise of command, the importance of morale, and the wider impact of the war on British society. Every topic is approached with the same academic rigour and attention to detail which are his hallmarks and which explain why his work has been so influential. The range of his writing, the insights he offers and the sometimes controversial conclusions he reaches mean this thought provoking book will be indispensable reading for all students of the First World War and of modern warfare in general.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090495643
Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122870228
Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155609
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.