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ISBN: 1783039655 1848847084 1299198805 9781848847088 9781783039654 9781299198807 1844152693 9781844152698 9781844155132 Year: 2005 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Military
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By drawing on a very large number of German sources, many of them previously unpublished, Jack Sheldon throws new light on a familiar story. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in the trenches, the author demonstrates that the dreadful losses of 1st July were a direct consequence of meticulous German planning and preparation. Although the Battle of the Somme was frequently a close-run affair, poor Allied co-ordination and persistence in attacking weakly on narrow fronts played into the hands of the German commanders, who were able to rush forward reserves, maintain
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ISBN: 9781783461820 Year: 2013 Publisher: Barnsley Pen & sword military
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ISBN: 9781848841130 Year: 2010 Publisher: Barnsley Pen and Sword Military
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Polemology --- anno 1910-1919 --- Ypres --- Ypres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914 --- Ieper, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914 --- Ypres, 1st Battle of, 1914 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Germany. --- Norddeutscher Bund (1866-1870). --- History
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ISBN: 9781781592007 Year: 2019 Publisher: Barnsley Pen & Sword Military
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These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon combine their respective expertise to tell the story of the men - British, French, Indian and German - who fought over the unremarkable undulating ground that was to become firmly placed in British national conscience ever afterwards.The most direct route to Ypres for the advancing German columns in October 1914 was along the axis of the Menin Road. It was here that the Old Contemptibles of the BEF earned their legendary heroic status as they fought off increasingly desperate German assaults day after day, whilst place names such as Zandvoorde, Polygon Wood and Gheluvelt were first etched into the British national consciousness. Bent and battered by the German storm, dressed in rags and short of food, equipment and ammunition, the regiments of the old professional army stood their ground against huge odds. When, on 11th November, they finally halted the Prussian Guards around Polygon Wood, virtually within sight of Ypres, they were reduced to one thin firing line. The BEF was at its last gasp, but it had inflicted a crushing defeat on the German army.
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ISBN: 9781781591994 Year: 2014 Publisher: Barnsley Pen & Sword Military
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