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
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
THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE
THE BATTLE OF AUBERS RIDGE
THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT
THE SECOND ACTION OF GIVENCHY
THE BATTLE OF LOOS
ALLIED PLANS FOR 1916
THE STRUGGLES FOR VERDUN
1916 IN RETROSPECT AND PLANS FOR 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
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
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