The Battle That Won the War: Bellenglise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle That Won the War: Bellenglise write by Peter Rostron. This book was released on 2018-03-30. The Battle That Won the War: Bellenglise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Divisions action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command.Painting the strategic picture from early 1918 and the dark weeks following the Germans March offensive, the Author lays the ground for the Allied counter-strike. Ahead of them was the mighty Hindenburg Line, the Kaisers formidable defensive obstacle given added strength by the St Quentin Canal.Undaunted the Allies attacked using American, Australian and British formations. Led by Major General Boyd, 46 Division stormed the Canal and, thanks to a combination of sound planning and determined courageous fighting, seized their Hindenburg Line objective by the end of the day.The psychological damage to the German will, already weakened by the failure of the Spring offensive, is demonstrate by Ludendorffs collapse and opening of negotiations that led five weeks later to the Armistice.
The Battle of the Bellicourt Tunnel
The Battle of the Bellicourt Tunnel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of the Bellicourt Tunnel write by Dale Blair. This book was released on 2011-04-21. The Battle of the Bellicourt Tunnel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In November 1918 the BEF under Field Marshal Haig fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German armys defeat. They did so as part of a coalition and the role of Australian diggers and US doughboys is often forgotten. The Bellicourt Tunnel attack, fought in the fading autumn light, was very much an inter-Allied affair and marked a unique moment in the Allied armies endeavours. It was the first time that such a large cohort of Americans had fought in a British army. Additionally, untried American II Corps and experienced Australian Corps were to spearhead the attack under the command of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash with British divisions adopting supporting roles on the flanks. Blair forensically details the fighting and the largely forgotten desperate German defence. Although celebrated as a marvellous feat of breaking the Hindenburg Line, the American attack failed generally to achieve its set objectives and it took the Australians three days of bitter fighting to reach theirs. Blair rejects the conventional explanation of the US mop up failure and points the finger of blame at Rawlinson, Haig and Monash for expecting too much of the raw US troops, singling out the Australian Corps commander for particular criticism. Overall, Blair judges the fighting g a draw. At the end, like two boxers, the Australian-American force was gasping for breath and the Germans, badly battered, back-pedalling to remain on balance. Overall the day was calamitous for the German army, even if the clean break-through that Haig had hoped for did not occur. Forced out of the Hindenburg Line, the prognosis for the German army on the Western Front and hence Imperial Germany itself was bleak indeed.
Surviving the Great War
Surviving the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving the Great War write by Aaron Pegram. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Surviving the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Trench Fever
Trench Fever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trench Fever write by Christopher Moore. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Trench Fever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Chris Moore, the Great War has developed from a childhood fascination to a full-blown obsession, both for the actuality, of the war - its archives and its archaeology - as well as its abiding influence on English language, manners and customs. Exasperated with the emphasis most war literature places on the officers, generals and political leaders, Chris Moore decided to trace the war-time experiences of one man, one personal history among the six million voiceless ranks of Britons in uniform. He chose Private Walter Butterworth, Fifth Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment, an obscure infantryman in a disparaged outfit of amateurs that somehow managed to win one of the greatest battles of history - who also happened to be Chris Moore's grandfather. In TRENCH FEVER, Chris Moore retrieves his grandfather's war-song by following (with reluctant family in tow) the three year march of the Fifth Leicesters through France and Flanders.
Breaking the Hindenburg Line
Breaking the Hindenburg Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking the Hindenburg Line write by Raymond Edward Priestley. This book was released on 1919. Breaking the Hindenburg Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
