Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : Major R. E. Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by Major R. E. Priestley and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with History categories.
At an hour and date to be notified later, the 46th Division, as part of a major operation, will cross the St. Quentin Canal, capture the Hindenburg Line, and advance to a position shown on the attached map A. This was the opening paragraph of the preliminary operation order which was to lead to one of the most outstanding feats of arms of the Great War, and that is where this story begins. It takes us through the planning, the opposed crossing and the subsequent divisional operations up to the armistice. How formidable the task was can be gauged from the photos of the canal; the bed was about 35 feet wide and it was like the ditch of a fortress. The approaches to the canal on the west side were covered by a continuous line of trenches, sited on a slight rise, with frequent strongpoints housing machine-guns, protected by a broad belt of barbed wire. Under the cover of a favourable mist and one of the finest barrages ever seen (fired without registration) the 46th Division stormed the enemy forward positions with few casualties and pushed on to make the crossing. The Riqueval bridge was still intact and it was secured by a party of N Staffs and sappers who rushed it, killing all the demolition party, who had been sheltering from the barrage, before they could reach it. The bridge still stands today, just as it was when captured. This is an absorbing account of an operation that went literally according to plan and from there the division went from one success to another as the story unfolds. The earlier history of the division is only briefly covered in an introductory chapter. It was the first complete TF division to arrive on the Western Front, in February 1915. Its first major battle was an attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt at the end of the Loos offensive in which it suffered over 3,800 casualties in two days. Its attack on Gommecourt on 1st July 1916 was a failure that cost some 2,500 casualties; it also cost the divisional commander (Montagu-Stuart-Wortley). his job It wasn't until the last few weeks of the war that the 46th Division really made its mark. In that time it encountered and defeated sixteen German divisions at a cost of 4,200 casualties. Total casualties throughout the war amounted to 29,569 and six VCs were won. The divisional sign was a rectangle surrounded by a white edge; the top half of the rectangle was scarlet and the lower half rifle green, the colours of the KRRC, the first GOC's regiment.
Breaking The Hindenburg Line The Story Of The 46th North Midland Division 1919
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Author : Raymond E. Priestley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-01
Breaking The Hindenburg Line The Story Of The 46th North Midland Division 1919 written by Raymond E. Priestley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with categories.
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Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : John Swettenham
language : en
Publisher: Canadian War Museum : Balmuir Book Publishing
Release Date : 1986
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by John Swettenham and has been published by Canadian War Museum : Balmuir Book Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Hindenburg Line, Battle of France, 1918 categories.
Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : Raymond Edward Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-10-12
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by Raymond Edward Priestley and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-12 with History categories.
Excerpt from Breaking the Hindenburg Line: The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division Major priestley's book is not intended as an official record; nevertheless it affords a graphic and accurate account of what took place on a small but decisive sector of the Western front during the Battles of the Hundred Days. It was my good fortune to take over command of the North Midland Division at a critical moment of its career, and just before we marched south to join General Sir H. Rawlinson's Fourth Army. To my predecessor, major-general W. Thwaites, must be ascribed the credit of having organized and trained the Division into a fighting machine in which every officer and man was imbued with a real soldier's spirit. It is to this fixed determination to win through at all costs, regardless of incidents on ank and in rear, that I mainly attribute the successes won by the Division. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : RAYMOND EDWARD. PRIESTLEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by RAYMOND EDWARD. PRIESTLEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : Raymond E Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by Raymond E Priestley and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with categories.
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The Battle Of The Bellicourt Tunnel
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Author : Dale Blair
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2021-05-30
The Battle Of The Bellicourt Tunnel written by Dale Blair and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with History categories.
In the summer and autumn of 1918, the British Expeditionary Force, under Field Marshal Haig, fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German Army’s final defeat. They did so as part of an Allied coalition, one in which the role of Australian diggers and US doughboys is often forgotten. The Bellicourt Tunnel attack in September 1918, fought in the fading autumn light, was very much an inter-Allied affair and marked a unique moment in the Allied armies’ endeavors. It was the first time that such a large cohort of Americans had fought in a British formation. 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 defenxe. Although celebrated as a marvelous feat of breaking the Hindenburg Line, the American attack generally failed 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 a draw. At the end, like two boxers, the Australian-American force was gasping for breath and the Germans, badly battered, were backpedalling to remain on balance. That said, the day was calamitous for the German Army, even if the clean breakthrough 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.
Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : Raymond Edward Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by Raymond Edward Priestley and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with categories.
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Duty Honor Privilege
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Author : Stephen L. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books
Release Date : 2001
Duty Honor Privilege written by Stephen L. Harris and has been published by Potomac Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
On September 29, 1918, a regiment of volunteers from New York State, many of them rich boys from Manhattan, attacked the feared Hindenburg Line, one of the strongest defensive systems ever devised. At a frightful cost, suffering more killed on a single day than any other regiment in American history, they broke the enemy and helped conclude World War I.
Breaking The Hindenburg Line
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Author : Raymond Edward Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-12-07
Breaking The Hindenburg Line written by Raymond Edward Priestley and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-07 with categories.
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