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The Battle Of Verdun (february 21-may 7)

Author : Louis Thomas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020164248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book The Battle Of Verdun (february 21-may 7) written by Louis Thomas and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most infamous and brutal battles of World War I, the Battle of Verdun lasted for more than three months and resulted in more than 300,000 fatalities. 'The Battle of Verdun February 21-May 7' is a vivid and detailed account of the conflict, which saw German forces attempt to capture the strategically important city of Verdun and the French defenders fight tenaciously to hold it. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7)

Author : Louis Thomas
Publisher : London : Hutchinson & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7) written by Louis Thomas and published by London : Hutchinson & Company. This book was released on 1916 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battle of Verdun

Author : Henry Dugard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (716 download)

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The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7)

Author : Louis Thomas
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297756733
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7) written by Louis Thomas and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Battle of Verdun

Author : Louis Thomas
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230387987
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Verdun written by Louis Thomas and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... had once been a trench. At midnight on the 21st the men were in position, and our first proceeding was the propitious one of capturing sixty-three prisoners who seemed extremely glad to be robbed of the opportunity of measuring themselves against us afterwards. They rubbed their hands and looked as pleased as schoolboys to be out of the war. Among these prisoners was an officer who attempted to escape and was promptly bayoneted by the sentry who was in charge of him. Our counter-attack took place on the 22nd, at 4.30 in the morning. After a short time the Germans themselves returned to the charge and neither side could claim any definite advantage in the end. All that day incessant grenade fighting went on on both sides, while working parties attempted to consolidate the ground. At that time we had no artificial cover. Herbebois is little more than a very thick copse, in the middle of which rise some fine trees. Most of it is simple thicket. But the artillery of the Germans had reduced the wood to a skeleton, and in many places there was nothing but a complicated tangle of branches"and tree-stumps. In this maze all we could do was to make barricades of logs and organize the shell-holes. It was snowing hard and this added to the trials the men had to endure. The Germans renewed their offensive in the night of the 22nd, yet in spite of a hurricane bombardment which was especially noteworthy for its accuracy, their infantry were not able to capture an inch of ground when their turn came. Our men beat them back with devastating loss.. They suffered even more heavily on the 23rd. Once more they deluged our lines for hours on end, and this time sent against us at least the equivalent of a battalion. This attack en masse raised our men's...

The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7)

Author : Louis Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Verdun (February 21-May 7) written by Louis Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Verdun

Author : Paul Jankowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199316910
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Verdun written by Paul Jankowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires, and drove men mad. As the barrage lifted, German troops moved forward, darting from shell crater to shell crater. The battle of Verdun had begun. In Verdun, historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the iconic battle of World War I. A leading expert on the French past, Jankowski combines the best of traditional military history-its emphasis on leaders, plans, technology, and the contingency of combat-with the newer social and cultural approach, stressing the soldier's experience, the institutional structures of the military, and the impact of war on national memory. Unusually, this book draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery of sources in both languages gives Verdun unprecedented authority and scope. In many ways, Jankowski writes, the battle represents a conundrum. It has an almost unique status among the battles of the Great War; and yet, he argues, it was not decisive, sparked no political changes, and was not even the bloodiest episode of the conflict. It is said that Verdun made France, he writes; but the question should be, What did France make of Verdun? Over time, it proved to be the last great victory of French arms, standing on their own. And, for France and Germany, the battle would symbolize the terror of industrialized warfare, "a technocratic Moloch devouring its children," where no advance or retreat was possible, yet national resources poured in ceaselessly, perpetuating slaughter indefinitely.

Verdun 1917

Author : Christina Holstein
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526717107
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Verdun 1917 written by Christina Holstein and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the historic French battlefield that goes beyond the usual dates and places, and reveals the full story of the fighting after the fighting. Despite the popular view, the French army did not cease offensive operations after the disastrous Nivelle Offensive of spring 1917 and the subsequent mutinies. Nor did the fighting at Verdun come to an end in 1916. The successful French counteroffensives at the end of that year led to preliminary planning for a two Army operation in 1917 to break out of the Verdun salient and recapture the strategically very significant Briey coal basin. The French Army mutinies of May and June 1917 led to a more limited version of the plan being implemented, with the aim of establishing new lines for a breakout in 1918. The need to rebuild morale in the French army meant that nothing was left to chance. The immense logistical effort of this late summer 1917 campaign and the detailed planning and careful training at all levels brought success to an army weary of war but determined to win. The industrial nature of the preparations, the spectacular numbers of guns, and the first appearance of the Americans at Verdun presage the campaigns of 1918 and the final Allied victory. Christina Holstein, Britain’s premier expert in the battlefields around Verdun, leads the reader around the various vital points of this largely unknown battle of 1917, one which was crucial for the rebuilding of a French army that played such a notable part in the victorious Allied campaign of 1918. Like all the books in the Battleground Europe series, it is profusely illustrated and mapped using contemporary and modern material, with clear maps to support each of the tours.

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun

Author : Robert T. Foley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521841931
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book German Strategy and the Path to Verdun written by Robert T. Foley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 90 years since its conclusion, the battle of Verdun is still little understood. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun is a detailed examination of this seminal battle based on research conducted in archives long thought lost. Material returned to Germany from the former Soviet Union has allowed for a reinterpretation of Erich von Falkenhayn's overall strategy for the war and of the development of German operational and tactical concepts to fit this new strategy of attrition. By taking a long view of the development of German military ideas from the end of the Franco-German War in 1871, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun also gives much-needed context to Falkenhayn's ideas and the course of one of the greatest battles of attrition the world has ever known.

The Verdun Regiment

Author : Johnathan Bracken
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526710315
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online

Verdun 1916

Author : William Martin
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verdun 1916 written by William Martin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On 21 February 1916, German General Erich von Falkenhayn unleashed his hammer-blow offensive against the French fortress city of Verdun. His aim was nothing short of the destruction of the French army. He was sure that the symbolic value of Verdun was such that the French would be 'compelled to throw in every man they have.' He was equally sure that 'if they do so the forces of France will bleed to death.' The massed batteries of German guns would smash the French troops in their trenches and bunkers. However, the French hung on with immense courage and determination and the battle became a bloody battle of attrition"--Page 4 of cover.

The Last Days of Fort Vaux

Author : Henry Bordeaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Fort Vaux written by Henry Bordeaux and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Soldier vs German Soldier

Author : David Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472838165
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book French Soldier vs German Soldier written by David Campbell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 February 1916, the German Army launched a major attack on the French fortress of Verdun. The Germans were confident that the ensuing battle would compel France to expend its strategic reserves in a savage attritional battle, thereby wearing down Allied fighting power on the Western Front. However, initial German success in capturing a key early objective, Fort Douaumont, was swiftly stemmed by the French defences, despite heavy French casualties. The Germans then switched objectives, but made slow progress towards their goals; by July, the battle had become a stalemate. During the protracted struggle for Verdun, the two sides' infantrymen faced appalling battlefield conditions; their training, equipment and doctrine would be tested to the limit and beyond. New technologies, including flamethrowers, hand grenades, trench mortars and more mobile machine guns, would play a key role in the hands of infantry specialists thrown into the developing battle, and innovations in combat communications were employed to overcome the confusion of the battlefield. This study outlines the two sides' wider approach to the evolving battle, before assessing the preparations and combat record of the French and German fighting men who fought one another during three pivotal moments of the 101⁄2-month struggle for Verdun.

The Fortifications of Verdun 1874–1917

Author : Clayton Donnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849084130
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Fortifications of Verdun 1874–1917 written by Clayton Donnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical in the infamous battle of World War I. This book examines these fortifications, including the famous forts of Douaumont and Vaux that saw some of the fiercest fighting during the battle.

The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918

Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
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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:

Catalogue of the War Office Library

Author : Great Britain. War Office. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the War Office Library written by Great Britain. War Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battles that Changed History

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159884430X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Battles that Changed History written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic collection of more than 200 of the most decisive and important battles throughout world history gets a fresh interpretation by a noted military historian. The mythic and doomed stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae; the siege of Carthage in 149-146 BCE, which ended with Rome destroying the city and enslaving the entire remaining Carthaginian population; the Battle of Hastings in 1066, arguably the most important battle ever on English soil; the Battle of Trenton that saved the American Revolutionary cause and established the military reputation of General Washington; the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945, that destroyed one quarter of the city. All of these conflicts—and hundreds more—played a crucial role in defining the direction of history and the evolution of human society. This text provides high school-level readers with detailed descriptions of the battlefield actions that have played the greatest parts in shaping military history and human existence. Special attention is paid to the greater historical context and significance of each battle, especially in relation to other events.