THE WESTERN FRONT
THEN AND NOW

John Giles

An evocative record of that 'war to end all war'.
EAST KENT MERCURY

This is the companion to John Giles' earlier volumes covering the Somme and the Ypres–Passchendaele sector. With The Western Front Then and Now the coverage is extended to include all the other main British battle areas of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. Starting with the spark that ignited the war, the outline of events brings the operations of the British Army in France and Flanders full circle: from the BEF at Mons in August 1914 and the retreat beyond the Marne to the victorious advances of the forces of the British Empire and their re-entering the town in November 1918. It is impossible not to marvel at the triumph of nature over the obliteration of the landscape. As for the men who experienced the horrors of war in the shell-torn,trench-riven wasteland of the Western Front, they were, as John Giles writes of them,a breed apart.

ISBN 0 900913 71 1
SIZE 8½"×10½"
272 PAGES
511 ILLUSTRATIONS
£24.95
CODE F026

COMPLETE CONTENTS

1914

THE ROAD TO WAR

THE FIRST MOVES

THE BATTLE OF MONS

THE RETREAT FROM MONS

THE BATTLE OF LE CATEAU

THE RETREAT CONTINUES

THE NERY AFFAIR

THE TIDE TURNS

THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE

THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE

THE MOVE NORTH

1915

THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE

THE BATTLE OF AUBERS RIDGE

THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT

THE SECOND ACTION OF GIVENCHY

THE BATTLE OF LOOS

1916

ALLIED PLANS FOR 1916

THE STRUGGLES FOR VERDUN

1916 IN RETROSPECT AND PLANS FOR 1917

1917

THE GERMAN WITHDRAWAL TO THE 'HINDENBURG LINE'

THE BATTLES OF ARRAS 1917
THE CAPTURE OF VIMY RIDGE
THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE SCARPE
THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SCARPE
THE THIRD BATTLE OF THE SCARPE
THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULLECOURT
SECOND BULLECOURT

THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI

1918

LUDENDORFF'S OPERATION 'MICHAEL':
THE SOMME BATTLES OF 1918

THE BATTLE OF THE LYS:
LUDENDORFF'S OPERATION 'GEORGETTE'

THE ALLIES TAKE THE INITIATIVE

THE BATTLE OF AMIENS 1918

MAINTAINING THE PRESSURE

THE ST MIHIEL SALIENT

THE BATTLE OF THE ST QUENTIN CANAL

THE ADVANCE CONTINUES

APPENDIX 1:
THE AIR WAR 1914 - 1918 AND THE AIR 'ACES'

APPENDIX 2:
THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME 1916

Flanders Then And Now

The Somme Then And Now

FRANCE AND FLANDERS PRESENTATION BOXED SET COMPRISING:
THE SOMME THEN AND NOW
FLANDERS THEN AND NOW
THE WESTERN FRONT THEN AND NOW

All three volumes in presentation slip case
ISBN 0 900913 93 2
£70.85
CODE F037