Download or read book Monchy le Preux written by Colin Fox and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the motorist speeds past Arras on the motorway south to Paris, a look to the east should bring into view the hilltop village of Monchy le Preux. This farming community dominates the ground to the North (as it falls away to the River Scarpe) and to the South ( to the River Coejeul). In the early days of the Battle of Arras in the spring of 1917 the Village fell to British attacks after a stubborn resistance by the German defenders.Therefore the struggle continued to wage just to its east as all attempts to move the line significantly further into the German defences failed. In 1918 the German spring offensive rapidly regained lost ground, but stumbled and faltered on the outskirts of Arras. When it came to the British turn to launch what was to turn put to be the final offensive of the war in this sector; it was the Canadian forces that led the way here. Monchy and the countryside round about has returned, for the most part, to a tranquil, rural spot. Few of the topographical features that loomed so important in 1917 and 1918 have disappeared, so that this is a battlefield where it is easy to follow the action, whilst walking along its tracks shows how significant a vantage point this was to the combatants of 1917 and 1918.There are a few remnants of the war, and mementoes continue to give stark reminders of the bitter struggles of eighty years and more ago. In the spring of 1998 over twenty British soldiers whose bodies had been unexpectedly unearthed in the course of land development were buried in Monchy British cemetery

Download or read book The King s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sir Douglas Haig s Despatches December 1915 April 1919 written by Earl Douglas Haig Haig and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Despatches December 1915 April 1919 written by Douglas Haig (Earl Haig) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Departed Warriors written by Jenny Murland and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader from the shores of Britain with the first volunteer army to leave for South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War, and to the battlefronts of the Great War of 1914-18. This work offers an account of two generations of a family who fought for their country and the impact it had upon their lives.

Download or read book Current History and Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New York Times Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The European War written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the East Surrey Regiment 1914 1919 written by Hugh Wodehouse Pearse and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the 31st Foot Huntingdonshire Regt 70th Foot Surrey Regt Subsequently 1st 2nd Battalions the East Surrey Regiment 1917 1919 written by Hugh Wodehouse Pearse and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book BULLETIN written by SOCIETE AMICALE DES ANCIENS ELEVES DE L'ECOLE DES MAITRES-MINEURS DE DOUAI and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nelson s History of the War written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lossberg s War written by Fritz von Lossberg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Fritz von Lossberg (1868–1942) directed virtually all the major German defensive battles on the Western Front during the First World War. Hailed as "the Lion of the Defensive," he was an extremely influential military tactician and, unlike many other operations officers of his era, was quick to grasp the changes wrought by technology. Now available for the first time in English, Lossberg's memoir explains how he developed, tested, and implemented his central principles—flexibility, decentralized control, and counterattack—which were based on a need to adapt to shifting conditions on the battlefield. Lossberg first put his theory of elastic defense combined with defense-in-depth into practice during the Battle of Arras (April–May 1917), where it succeeded. At the Battle of Passchendaele (June–November 1917), his achievements on the field proved the feasibility of his strategy of employing a thinly manned front line that minimized the number of soldiers exposed to artillery fire. Lossberg's tactical modernizations have become essential components of army doctrine, and Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of A German Chief of Staff will take readers inside the mind of one of the most significant military innovators of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Western Front 1917 1918 written by John Grehan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as Germany attacked France and the Allies sought to halt it; second, the lengthy and terribly costly siege warfare as the entrenched lines proved impossible to crack (late 1914 to mid–1918); and finally a return to mobile warfare as the Allies applied lessons and technologies forged in the previous years.As with previous wars, British Commanders-in-Chief of a theatre of war or campaign were obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War Office in the form of a despatch and those written from the Western Front provide a fascinating, detailed and compelling overview of this part of the First World War.This volume concludes with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's fascinating despatch, originally published in 1919, on the execution of the fighting on the Western Front

Download or read book The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914 1918 written by John Cecil Latter and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: