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Book Synopsis 1918—Amiens to the Hindenburg Line by : Peter Burness
Download or read book 1918—Amiens to the Hindenburg Line written by Peter Burness and published by DVA Anzac Portal. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians on the Western Front—1918 Amiens to the Hindenburg Line is the final book in the Australians on the Western Front 1916-1918 series developed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Amiens, 1918 by : Alexander Horace Cyril Kearsey
Download or read book The Battle of Amiens, 1918 written by Alexander Horace Cyril Kearsey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Western Front 1917–1918 by : Andrew Wiest
Download or read book The Western Front 1917–1918 written by Andrew Wiest and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Western Front 1917–1918 provides a detailed guide to the background and conduct of the conflict on the Western Front in the final years of World War I.
Book Synopsis Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front by : Frederick Arthur McKenzie
Download or read book Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front written by Frederick Arthur McKenzie and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur McKenzie was a member of the fiercely proud band of Canadians who made that trip across the Atlantic to fight alongside the British other Dominion troops. He served from the days of 1915 to the end of the war in 1918, surviving the many terrible dangers of the front-line. He recounts the tales of the band of brothers that he fought with, and the “family” feeling that permeated the Candian troops from the commanding General right down to the lowliest private. The author’s main focus is in describing his experience in the battles that he took part in during 1917 and 1918 as the title suggests including at Vimy ridge and at Passchendaele and Amiens in 1918. He describes the different elements of trench warfare, from raiding the enemy line with knob-kerries and grenades, to the shelling, tanks and mayhem of a full offensive “push”. A great First World War Memoir. Author — McKenzie, Frederick Arthur, 1869-1931 Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. Original Page Count – 429 pages
Book Synopsis Our Corner of the Somme by : Romain Fathi
Download or read book Our Corner of the Somme written by Romain Fathi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the Armistice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a result, it holds a significant place in Australian history. Villers-Bretonneux has since become an open-air memorial to Australia's participation in the First World War. Successive Australian governments have valourised the Australian engagement, contributing to an evolving Anzac narrative that has become entrenched in Australia's national identity. Our Corner of the Somme provides an eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australia's role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians' understanding of themselves. In this rigorous and richly detailed study, Romain Fathi challenges accepted historiography by examining the assembly, projection and performance of Australia's national identity in northern France.
Download or read book Amiens 1918 written by Gregory Blaxland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of weeks that summer.As the realities of the changing nature of warfare by late 1917 made the retention of static lines, no matter how sophisticated, no longer a long term viable option for the defence; and with Russia knocked out of the war, the Germans under Hindenburg and Ludendorff determined on a bold series of major offensives, the first of which was aimed at the British Fifth Army with the objective of seizing Amiens, a crucial rail head and the city that marked the boundary between the BEF and the French. Capture this and the Germans had a good chance of separating the key allied powers. Despite almost destroying Fifth Army and advancing within ten miles of Amiens, the Germans failed in their objective; they turned to a number of other hard thrusts along the line but were foiled on each occasions.Reinforced by substantial numbers of American troops, the allies launched their first, French led, counter attack on 18 July, which many considered the turning point of the 1918 campaign and, indeed the whole war. Shortly afterwards, on 8 August, the BEF (with some French support) attacked with Fourth Army before Amiens and was stunningly successful what Ludendorff described as the Black Day of the German Army. There followed a sequence of blows by all the allies along the Western Front, pushing the Germans back to the borders; with her allies collapsing and with the Imperial Navy in a state of mutiny,The book largely concentrates on the British and Dominion troops of the BEF. The first half is taken up with the attack on Amiens (and, to a lesser extent, on Arras). In the second half of the book the author provides a cohesive account of the British response in retaking the initiative from the Germans, though not failing to give allied nations their due.Besides giving a full narrative account, he also provides a useful critical commentary of the performance of armies and generals.This is a welcome reprint of an accessible account of the crucial year of the war, when on the Western Front the conflict broke free of its entrenched deadlock. Despite the extraordinary achievements of the BEF in 1918, they still remain remarkably little known and even less appreciated.
Book Synopsis The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918 by : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Download or read book The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918 written by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amiens 1918 written by Alistair McCluskey and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the spring of 1918 of World War I (1914-1918), Germany had been on the offensive on the Western Front but had failed to break the Allies at any point. In July they had been forced back from the river Marne and were once again on the defensive. The Allies were now ready to increase the pressure. The Amiens area was selected and preparations were made in great secrecy with diversionary activity at other points on the line. 32 divisions were involved (twelve French, eight British, five Australian, four Canadian and one American) supported by over 500 tanks and overwhelming airpower. The first day saw an Allied advance of 5 miles across a 12-mile front, with over 27,000 German casualties. Progress was then less spectacular but by the time the battle ended on August 11 Germany had lost 75,000 men, and suffered a severe blow to morale. Amiens was notable for its successful application of the new combined-arms tactics, fully integrating infantry, artillery, armor and airpower at the commencement of the Allies' final, war-winning offensive. Published on the 90th anniversary of the battle, this book sets the strategic scene and clearly describes the fighting, highlighting the significance of the newly developed methods of war and detailing the troop movements that brought about the breakthrough and rapid advance that was achieved.
Book Synopsis 1918—Villers-Bretonneux to Le Hamel by : Peter Burness
Download or read book 1918—Villers-Bretonneux to Le Hamel written by Peter Burness and published by DVA Anzac Portal. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians on the Western Front—1918 Villers-Bretonneux to Le Hamel is the fourth book in the Australians on the Western Front 1916-1918 series developed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Download or read book Amiens 1918 written by James McWilliams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 August 1918, the Allied forces launched the surprise attack that heralded the end of the First World War. With skill and daring, 21 divisions of men breached the German lines, supported by 500 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. This book considers the successes and failures of both sides in this conflict.
Book Synopsis The Day We Won The War by : Charles Messenger
Download or read book The Day We Won The War written by Charles Messenger and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the British, ANZACs and Canadians finally broke the German army on the most decisive day of the Great War. The British attack at Amiens was the most decisive day of the Great War. In earlier offensives, a gain of a few hundred yards counted as a 'victory', but this time our troops advanced seven miles in a day and broke clean through the German defences. The long agony on the Western Front was nearly over. Spearheaded by tanks and armoured cars and supported by the RAF, the attack was led by the Australian and Canadian Corps, with British and French troops on the flanks. Elaborate deception measures were employed to ensure surprise. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, as well as eyewitness accounts, this book describes how the attack was conceived, the preparations, and the actual assault itself, as well as what happened on the subsequent days and how Amiens paved the way for the final victorious Allied advance.
Book Synopsis The Book of History: The events of 1918. The armistice and peace treaties by :
Download or read book The Book of History: The events of 1918. The armistice and peace treaties written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated summary of world history from an Euro-centric view but in great detail up to the end of World War II.
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Doctrine by : Timothy T. Lupfer
Download or read book The Dynamics of Doctrine written by Timothy T. Lupfer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine. Besides providing a summary of German Infantry tactics of the First World War, this study offers insight into the crucial role of leadership in facilitating doctrinal change during battle. It reminds us that success in war demands extensive and vigorous training calculated to insure that field commanders understand and apply sound tactical principles as guidelines for action and not as a substitute for good judgment. It points out the need for a timely effort in collecting and evaluating doctrinal lessons from battlefield experience. --Abstract.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Days Offensive by : Andrew Langley
Download or read book The Hundred Days Offensive written by Andrew Langley and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years into World War I, millions of soldiers had died or been badly wounded, and neither side could gain a clear advantage in the bloody conflict. In August 1918, one year after the United States entered the war, Allied troops launched an attack near Amiens, France. It was the first of many Allied offensives that would take place all along the Western Front during the next 100 days. These small but significant attacks helped the Allies gain the advantage and usher in the end of the war.
Download or read book Hundred Days written by Nick Lloyd and published by Viking. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Lloyd's Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling and ground-breaking new study, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918,Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies - British, French, American and Commonwealth - managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline and ravaged by influenza, and force her leaders to seek peace. This is a powerful and moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd's depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies' victories and the bitter reality of German defeat . (Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies)). Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign . (Publishers Weekly). Nick Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. He specialises in British military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and is the author of two books, Loos 1915 (2006), and The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011).
Download or read book To Win a War written by John Terraine and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert narrative of 1918, when the breakthrough was finally made, and everything it took to achieve victory.
Download or read book 1918 written by Barrie Pitt and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vividly detailed history examines the battles and politics in the final year of WWI—includes trench diagrams, photographs, and maps of battles. Three years into the Great War, Europe found itself in a stalemate on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed and the United States had abandoned neutrality, joining the Allied cause. These developments set the stage for the climactic events of 1918, the year that would finally see an end to the war. In 1918: The Last Act, acclaimed military historian Barrie Pitt “analyses with great lucidity the broad outlines of German and Allied Strategy” (The Sunday Telegraph). With an expert eye, Pitt looks into the policies of the warring powers, the men who led them, and the resulting battles along the Western Front. From the German onslaught of March 21, 1918, to the struggles in Champagne and the Second Battle of the Marne, to the turning point in August and the final, hard-won victory, 1918 The Last Act traces “the blunders at the top and the filth and stench and misery of the trenches” in order to deliver “a compelling narrative” of World War I (Daily Mail).
