Download or read book Battle Story Cambrai 1917 written by Chris McNab and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambrai 1917 was the battle that sowed the seeds of future combined-arms tank and infantry warfare, while remaining a battle of singular drama in its own right. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. Detailed profiles explore the background of the generals of the two opposing forces, as well as what made up the average German and British soldier. First-person, contemporary sources bring the reader into the world of the Battle of Cambrai and show what it was like to be in the thick of battle. Detailed maps highlight key points in the battle and the surrounding area. Photographs place you on the front line of the unfolding action. Orders of battle reveal the composition of the two opposing forces' army in detail. Packed with fact boxes, this short introduction is the perfect way to explore this important battle.
Download or read book Cambrai 1917 written by Bryn Hammond and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the first great tank battle, and the genesis of one of the most formidable weapons of the twentieth century. Cambrai was the last - and most influential - battle fought by the British on the Western Front in 1917. With many of the Allies on the brink of collapse, only Britain was still capable of holding the Germans at bay. Over time, many myths have grown up around what happened at Cambrai. The events of this iconic attack are now buried beneath accumulated legends and misrepresentations built up over almost a century. It is remembered as the world's first great tank battle, but it was the brilliant British innovations in artillery techniques that most shocked the enemy. Equally important were the new 'stormtroop' tactics the Germans pioneered. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, first-hand accounts and official reports, Bryn Hammond's definitive account examines this military milestone, how the myths were created, and how they changed the face of warfare for ever.
Download or read book British Battle Of Cambrai 1917 written by André Geraque Kiffer and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the scenario of the wargame that will be used it was decided not to change the organization for the combat of the Tank Corps, because it is understood to be far ahead of its time a Blitzkrieg and even more, in this case, applying in a “siege war”. On the other hand, the operational strategic failure in the allocation of resources to the Third Army was corrected due to the reduction of the front and the depth of penetration, as well as the reduction of the objective level, from strategic to tactical. In short, a safe “laboratory” for new weapon systems.
Download or read book Battle Of Cambrai 1917 written by André Geraque Kiffer and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of November 20, 1917, more than 400 tanks (tanks) advanced against a 10-kilometer enemy line near the city of Cambrai, leading the assault of five infantry divisions against this sector of the Hindenburg Line. The study of the terrain is the basis of the most important variable that will be scientifically sought to alter and obtain a British victory, that is, to carry out a limited area offensive with the aim of creating a salient between the channels, dominating Cambrai by south and west (Bourlon position), which served as a safe attack position for the continuation of operations after the winter, aiming at a strategic penetration. In the scenario of the wargame that will be used it was decided not to change the organization for the combat of the Tank Corps, because it is understood to be far ahead of its time a Blitzkrieg and even more, in this case, applying in a “siege war”. On the other hand, the operational strategic failure in the allocation of resources to the Third Army was corrected due to the reduction of the front and the depth of penetration, as well as the reduction of the objective level, from strategic to tactical. In short, a safe “laboratory” for new weapon systems.
Download or read book Cambrai written by A.J Smithers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is probably true to say that no land battle of this century passes Cambrai in importance. Up to the winter of 1917 warfare had changed only in degree since the coming of gunpowder. The scenario, with parts for horse, foot and guns, remained essentially the same. All this was part of a world about to disappear for good with the introduction of the tank. The British Army, hammered by years of war and facing almost alone the vastly increasing strength of its enemy, was expected by most observers to be near to going down in defeat. Instead of that, using British designed and built fighting machines of a novel kind, it attacked and drove the Germans from the strongest fortifications ever built. Nobody, save for a dedicated few, had believed such a feat possible. After profiting from its lessons the same Army, 12 months later, achieved its greatest victories of all time and saved Europe, for a time, from German dictatorship. The methods used made obsolete everything that had gone before and laid out the ground for each serious operation of war from Amiens to the Gulf.
Download or read book The Battle of Cambrai 1917 written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1917 Battle of Cambrai featured the first massed tank attack in military history and provoked the biggest German counter-attack against the British since 1914. The British aimed to break through the German Hindenburg Line, then threaten the rear of the German positions to the north. The battle is one of the most famous and controversial episodes of the First World War, and the battlefield is one of the most commonly visited on the Western Front. Jerry Murland’s clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to it. Visitors can trace for themselves the course of the battle across the modern landscape and gain a fascinating insight into the nature of the fighting – and the wider conflict across the Western Front – throughout the war. Included are a series of routes that can be walked, cycled or driven. Among the key sites covered are Haverincourt, Flesquières, Mœuveres, Graincourt, Cantaign, Marcoing and Masnières, Bourlon, La Vacquerie and Villers-Plouich, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu. In each place Jerry Murland describes the fighting that occurred there, recording what happened, exactly where it happened and why, and he points out the sights that remain for the visitor to see. His guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of the Battle of Cambrai and the war on the Western Front.
Download or read book VCs of the First World War Cambrai 1917 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation of a great victory. A tank crewman numbers among the recipients of the VC. Containing biographies of a broad cross-section of men from Britain and the Dominions including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even the Ukraine. It includes a sapper, a former miner, who chose to stay with his seriously wounded colleague underground and die with him, rather than obey an order to leave him and save his own life; a maverick lieutenant-colonel who was relieved of his command and a padre who worked tirelessly over a period of three nights bringing at least twenty-five men to safety from No Man's Land, who otherwise would have been left to die.
Download or read book France and Belgium 1917 Vol III the Battle of Cambrai Official History of the Great War written by Capt W Miles and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Tank Battle Cambrai 1917 written by Robert Woollcombe and published by London : A. Barker. This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaget ved Cambrai 20. november 1917 behandles især ud fra, at det var det første større samlede kampvognsslag, hvor englænderne havde samlet ca. 500 kampvogne, den første brug af artilleri uden forudgående registrering, samt for første gang de spæde forsøg på samarbejde mellem hærtropper og flystyrker.
Download or read book The Cambrai Campaign 1917 written by Andrew Rawson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid on the Hindenburg Line at Cambrai. The raid grew into a full scale attack and Third Army would rely on a different style of attack. The preliminary bombardment would be done away with and the troops would assemble in secret.Predicted fire had reached such a level of accuracy that 1,000 guns could hit targets without registration. Meanwhile, over 375 tanks would lead the infantry through the Hindenburg Line, ripping holes in the wire and suppressing the enemy. The study of the German counterattack ten days later, illustrates the different tactics they used and the British experience on the defensive.Each stage of the battle is given equal treatment, with detailed insights into the most talked about side of the campaign, the British side. It explains how far the Tank Corps had come in changing the face of trench warfare. Over forty new maps chart the day by day progress of each corps on each day.Together the narrative and the maps provide an insight into the British Armys experience during this important campaign. The men who made a difference are mentioned; those who led the advances, those who stopped the counterattacks and those who were awarded the Victoria Cross.Discover the Cambrai campaign and learn how the British Armys brave soldiers fought and died fighting to achieve their objectives.
Download or read book British Battle Of Cambrai 1917 written by André Geraque Kiffer and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the scenario of the wargame that will be used it was decided not to change the organization for the combat of the Tank Corps, because it is understood to be far ahead of its time a Blitzkrieg and even more, in this case, applying in a “siege war”. On the other hand, the operational strategic failure in the allocation of resources to the Third Army was corrected due to the reduction of the front and the depth of penetration, as well as the reduction of the objective level, from strategic to tactical. In short, a safe “laboratory” for new weapon systems.
Download or read book VCs of the First World War written by Gerald Gliddon and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Gliddon covers the men who won the Victoria Cross on the Western Front in 1916 prior to the beginning of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July, together with those who won the medal after the Battle of Paschendaele petered out at the end of October 1917.
Download or read book Cambrai 1917 written by Alexander Turner and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This crucial new study of one of the seminal events in military history dispells many of the myths surrounding Cambrai 1917 of World War I (1914-1918). Common perception classifies it as the "world's first tank battle" but Alexander Turner shows us that the real importance of Cambrai was that it saw the first use of armor as an operational shock tactic. With the pre-eminence of armor, the conduct of war was irrevocably changed. The battle also heralded the combined use of aircraft, armor, and artillery, marking the birth of modern combined-arms techniques. Written by a military historian and serving soldier, this is a fascinating analysis of a battle which was a stalemate, yet spawned a host of war-winning tactics.
Download or read book The Battle of Cambrai 1917 written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1917 Battle of Cambrai featured the first massed tank attack in military history and provoked the biggest German counter-attack against the British since 1914. The British aimed to break through the German Hindenburg Line, then threaten the rear of the German positions to the north. The battle is one of the most famous and controversial episodes of the First World War, and the battlefield is one of the most commonly visited on the Western Front. Jerry Murland's clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to it.Visitors can trace for themselves the course of the battle across the modern landscape and gain a fascinating insight into the nature of the fighting - and the wider conflict across the Western Front - throughout the war. Included are a series of routes that can be walked, cycled or driven. Among the key sites covered are Haverincourt, Flesquières, Moeuveres, Graincourt, Cantaign, Marcoing and Masnières, Bourlon, La Vacquerie and Villers-Plouich, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu.In each place Jerry Murland describes the fighting that occurred there, recording what happened, exactly where it happened and why, and he points out the sights that remain for the visitor to see. His guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of the Battle of Cambrai and the war on the Western Front.
Download or read book The Tank Battle of Cambrai from November 20 to 29 1917 written by Georg Strutz and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Messines 1917 written by Alexander Turner and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 0310 hours on 7 June 1917, the pre-dawn gloom on the Western Front was shattered by the 'pillars of fire' - the rapid detonation of 19 huge mines, secreted in tunnels under the German lines and containing 450 tonnes of explosives. Admitted by the Germans to be a 'masterstroke', the devastating blasts caused 10,000 soldiers to later be posted simply as 'missing'. Launching a pre-planned attack into the carnage, supported by tanks and a devastating artillery barrage, the British took the strategic objective of Messines Ridge within hours. A rare example of innovation and success in the First World War (1914-1918), this book is a fresh and timely examination of a fascinating campaign.
