Download or read book Ypres 1917 written by Edgar Norman Gladden and published by London : Kimber. This book was released on 1967 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messines Ridge; Pilckem Ridge, Langemarck; Menin Road; Passchendaele.
Download or read book Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres 1914 1918 written by Martin M. Evans and published by Osprey Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passchendaele, the objective of the third great battle of the Ypres, was finally captured by the Canadians on Nov. 6, 1917. Long before that, this strategically located Belgian town had ceased to exist as anything more than a name on the map, having been obliterated by artillery shells and swallowed by the Flanders mud. But by then, the town had come to symbolize the suffering of the British infantryman. This book details the experiences of those soldiers from the first clash in 1915 to the final offensive in a story that will leave no reader unmoved. First-hand accounts and color renderings of the uniforms and weapons put you there in the trenches with the ordinary soldier.
Download or read book France and Belgium 1917 Vol II Messines and Third Ypres Passchendaele Official History of the Great War written by Brig-Gen Sir Je Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1917 The Passchendaele Year written by Achiel Van Walleghem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of "Third Ypres"--Popularly known as "Passchendaele" - epitomized the worst slaughter on the western front of the First World War Many thousands killed, to no avail; the trenches full of mud; the total annihilation of the landscape; attempts to break through to victory which only produced minor movement forward, and at a terrible cost. This book tells the previously untold story of daily life immediately behind the frontline during the tragic year of 1917.
Download or read book A Moonlight Massacre written by Michael LoCicero and published by Wolverhampton Military Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Battle of Ypres was officially terminated by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the opening of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. Nevertheless, a comparatively unknown set-piece attack - the only large-scale night operation carried out on the Flanders front during the campaign - was launched twelve days later on 2 December. This volume is a necessary corrective to previously published campaign narratives of what has become popularly known as 'Passchendaele'. It examines the course of events from the mid-November decision to sanction further offensive activity in the vicinity of Passchendaele village to the barren operational outcome that forced British GHQ to halt the attack within ten hours of Zero. A litany of unfortunate decisions and circumstances contributed to the profitless result. At the tactical level, a novel hybrid set-piece attack scheme was undermined by a fatal combination of snow-covered terrain and bright moonlight. At the operational level, the highly unsatisfactory local situation in the immediate aftermath of Third Ypres' post-strategic phase (26 October-10 November) appeared to offer no other alternative to attacking from the confines of an extremely vulnerable salient. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the affair occurred at the political and strategic level, where Haig's earnest advocacy for resumption of the Flanders offensive in spring 1918 was maintained despite obvious signs that the initiative had now passed to the enemy and the crisis of the war was fast approaching. "A Moonlight Massacre" provides an important contribution and reinterpretation of the discussion surrounding Passchendaele, based firmly on an extensive array of sources, many unpublished, and supported by illustrations and maps.
Download or read book From Flanders Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France and Belgium 1917 written by Cyril Falls and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ypres Salient written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Second Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of Messines, Second Battle of Ypres, Battle of Mont Sorrel, Wipers Times, First Battle of Passchendaele, Tyne Cot, Saint Julien Memorial, The Ypres League, Battle of Kitcheners' Wood, Battle of Hill 60, Hill 62 Memorial, Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, Fifth Battle of Ypres, The Liverpool Scottish memorial stone, Battle of Courtrai, Saint George's Memorial Church, Ypres, Ploegsteert Wood. Excerpt: The Second Battle of Passchendaele was the culminating and final attack during the Third Battle of Ypres of the First World War. The battle took place in the Ypres Salient area of the Western Front, in and around the Belgian town of Passchendaele, between 26 October 1917 and 10 November 1917. The Canadian Corps was tasked with relieving the exhausted II Anzac Corps, continuing the advance started with the First Battle of Passchendaele and ultimately capturing the town of Passchendaele itself. Beyond gaining favorable observation positions, the battle was intended to gain drier winter positions on higher ground. The assault position was directly south of the inter-army boundary between the British Fifth Army and Second Army. As a result the Canadian Corps was to attack with support of formations from the British Fifth Army to the north and I Anzac Corps to the south. The offensive was executed in series of attacks each with limited objectives, delivered at intervals of three or more days. The execution dates of the phases were tentatively given as 26 October, 30 October and 6 November with a final smaller action on 10 November. To permit time to facilitate inter-divisional reliefs, there was a planned seven day pause between the second and third stage during which time British Second Army was ordered to take over the section of the British Fifth Army front adjoining the...
Download or read book Passchendaele written by Philip Warner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist General European and world history written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traces de la Grande Guerre written by J. S. Cartier and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace Stanford University written by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grande Guerre Le Pouvoir D influence de la Photographie written by Ann Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War ushered in the use of photography to document armed conflict, in addition to so many other technological innovations. This catalog, assembled by the National Gallery of Canada, includes studio portraits of soldiers and members of their families as well as official photographs that reflect the military and political objectives of the war.
Download or read book Special collections written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Un si cle de sites fun raires de la Grande Guerre written by Annette Becker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Les pertes inouïes de la Grande Guerre ont entraîné la généralisation de pratiques embryonnaires auparavant : individualisation des sépultures, construction de monuments commémoratifs, multiplication des rites. Des chercheurs de nombreux pays étudient les traces de cette rupture majeure, encore largement visible dans les paysages. Tombes, cénotaphes, nécropoles, monuments et mémoriaux en représentent le témoignage matériel et culturel. Anthropologues, historiens, archéologues, spécialistes du tourisme de mémoire, retracent comment a été remémorée ce que l'on croyait être la vision du monde des disparus, du sacrifice au pacifisme. La comparaison internationale et diachronique, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au génocide du Rwanda, donne toute leur importance à ces sites, au moment où ceux du front occidental belge et français sont candidats à entrer au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Ces témoins des consciences traversées par le malheur des guerres sont l'espoir de la réconciliation humaniste."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
