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Download or read book Breaking the Hindenburg Line written by Raymond Edward Priestley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Breaking the Hindenburg Line: The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division Major priestley's book is not intended as an official record; nevertheless it affords a graphic and accurate account of what took place on a small but decisive sector of the Western front during the Battles of the Hundred Days. It was my good fortune to take over command of the North Midland Division at a critical moment of its career, and just before we marched south to join General Sir H. Rawlinson's Fourth Army. To my predecessor, major-general W. Thwaites, must be ascribed the credit of having organized and trained the Division into a fighting machine in which every officer and man was imbued with a real soldier's spirit. It is to this fixed determination to win through at all costs, regardless of incidents on ank and in rear, that I mainly attribute the successes won by the Division. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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