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Anglo-French relations and strategy on the Western Front 1914-18
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ISBN: 0333631250 0312129440 Year: 1996 Publisher: Basingstoke ; London New York Macmillan press St. Martin's Press

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Australian doctors on the Western Front : France and Belgium 1916-1918
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ISBN: 1925078280 9781925078282 9781925078305 1925078302 9781925078121 1925078124 Year: 2014 Publisher: Australia [Kenthurst, NSW] Rosenberg

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A detailed account of the carnage on the Western Front from 1916-1918.This is the third volume in the series 'Doctors at War' written by Colonel Robert Likeman CSM, recently retired from the post of Director of Army Health in Canberra.Vols 1 and 2 were published by Slouch Hat Publications in 2010 and 2012. Likeman provides mini biographies of each of the 600+ Australian doctors,and the Australian Army Medical Corps units and hospitals, which served on the Western Front and in the training establishments in the UK.Each officer's medical qualifications are listed, along with any honours and awards,


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Hitlers erster Krieg : der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg - Mythos und Wahrheit
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ISBN: 3549074050 9783549074053 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin : Propyläen Verlag,

Foch : Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War
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ISBN: 1612340571 9781612340579 1574885510 9781574885514 Year: 2003 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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Analyzes the career of one of France's greatest military heroes and examines the contentious postwar Versailles Conference of 1919


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Ein Landsturmmann im Himmel : Flandern und der Erste Weltkrieg in den Briefen von Herman Nohl an seine Frau.
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ISBN: 3865830706 9783865830708 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leipzig : Leipziger Universitätsverlag,

Le Québec, le Canada et la guerre 1914-1918
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ISBN: 0885321375 9780885321377 Year: 1977 Publisher: [Montréal] : Editions de l'Aurore,


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Haig's intelligence : GHQ and the German Army, 1916-1918
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ISBN: 9781107039612 9781139600521 9781107519275 9781461950660 146195066X 1139600524 1107468701 9781107468702 9781107465206 1107465206 1107039614 1107461588 9781107461581 1139892975 9781139892971 1107459486 9781107459489 1107472253 9781107472259 1107519276 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals how the British perceived the German army through a study of the development of the British intelligence system, its personnel and the ways in which intelligence was gathered. He also examines how intelligence shaped strategy and operations by exploring the influence of intelligence in creating perceptions of the enemy. He shows for the first time exactly what the British knew about their opponent, when and how and, in so doing, sheds significant new light on continuing controversies about the British army's conduct of operations in France and Belgium and the relationship between Haig and his chief intelligence officer, John Charteris.


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Behind the front : British soldiers and French civilians, 1914-1918
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ISBN: 1107776732 1107779189 1107778662 1139020382 1107781175 1107784379 1107784832 1107779936 0521837618 131661221X 9780521837613 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians, whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of the British and Dominion soldier at war.

The unquiet western front : Britain's role in literature and history
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ISBN: 0521809959 9780521809955 0521036410 1107125014 0511120044 0511042116 0511322631 0511158017 051149615X 1280159537 0511044925 9780511042119 9780511044922 9780511120046 9786610159536 661015953X 9780511496158 9780521036412 9781107125018 9781280159534 9780511158018 9780511322631 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.

Le Chemin des Dames : de l'évènement à la mémoire
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ISBN: 2234056470 9782234056473 Year: 2004

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"C'est l'enfer[ ...]. II faut y être passé pour comprendre" écrit le simple soldat Clerfeuille en évoquant le Chemin des Dames après le début de la fameuse offensive du 16 avril 1917, Le conflit dure depuis plus de deux ans et demi et le plan grandiose du général Nivelle ne vise rien moins qu'à terminer la guerre en perçant le front à cet endroit. Malgré certaines réticences civiles et militaires, qui ne peuvent être rendues publiques, Nivelle est alors porteur des espoirs de toute la nation, à l'avant comme à l'arrière. Près d'un million d'hommes sont rassemblés pour cette immense opération qui se transforme, dès les premières heures, en un épouvantable calvaire pour les soldats, confrontés à des positions allemandes en contre-haut, bien organisées dans un dédale de galeries et de cavernes insuffisamment détruites par l'artillerie : plus de cent mille hommes sont hors de combat en quinze jours... Les assauts dans la boue et la neige, face à des pentes imprenables, transforment l'espoir en boucherie. L'échec de l'offensive ouvre rapidement la voie à de nombreux débats et discussions et rend la mémoire de l'événement particulièrement trouble. D'emblée honteuse, la bataille est difficilement baptisée ; elle est bataille de l'Aisne, bataille du Chemin des Dames, ou encore offensive Nivelle, en fonction de ce que l'on veut souligner... On nie d'abord l'échec évident du projet ; on écarte ou minimise l'événement dans l'écriture de la guerre. Son importance est pourtant considérable par les choix militaires qu'elle entraîne (la fin des grandes offensives), les mutineries qu'elle provoque (et qui sont ici revisitées), et, au-delà, par son rôle dans la construction du mythe Pétain (le "sauveur" qui redresse les erreurs de Nivelle). Pour saisir toute la portée de l'événement, une équipe d'historiens, entre l'archive et le terrain, a mené une enquête de grande ampleur abordant toutes les facettes du "Chemin des Dames", de 14-18 à nos jours : histoires, combats, traces, mémoires... Il fallait aussi entendre ces autres voix qui ont toujours fait la vigueur du récit de la Grande Guerre : celle du combattant au cœur des offensives (Paul Clerfeuille) ou celle du Chemin des Dames d'aujourd'hui (Noël Genteur), celle de l'image (Arlette Farge) ou celle du romancier (Didier Daeninckx livre ici une nouvelle inédite)

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