La Bataille De Verdun 1916 1917
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La Bataille De Verdun 1916 1917
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Author : Louis Gillet
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
La Bataille De Verdun 1916 1917 written by Louis Gillet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Verdun est la bataille emblématique de la Première Guerre mondiale, comme Stalingrad le sera de la Seconde. Dans les deux cas, des destructions totales, absolues, par l'artillerie à Verdun et par l'aviation à Stalingrad. Dans les deux cas des combats dans des corps à corps sans pitié. Dans les deux cas, une terre envahie : la France en 1914 et la Russie en 1941. La bataille se déroule de lévrier 1916 à août 1917, dans des combats acharnés qui portent les noms de Bois des Caures, Douaumont, le Mort-Homme, la cote 304, Vaux, Souville, le Chemin des Dames, Saint-Mihiel, les Eparges, et bien d'autres. C'est le 21 février 1916, à 4 h 15, qu'un obus, tiré d'une distance de trente cinq kilomètres, tomba sur la ville haute, près du chevet de la cathédrale ; et c'est à 7 h 15 que l'enfer se déchaîna. "Rien de plus allemand que cette manière d'opérer et de produire en quelques instants, par la puissance mécanique, des ravages et des effets de cataclysme". C'est dans le Bois des Caures que tombèrent le lieutenant-colonel Driant et ses chasseurs, après trente-six heures de résistance, premiers morts exemplaires. Ce sera ensuite, en mars, les premiers combats du Mort-Homme et de la cote 304 qui se renouvelèrent tout au long de la bataille, tant ces deux sites formaient des observatoires de route première importance pour chacune des deux armées. Pour la même raison, le fort de Douaumont sera pris et repris plusieurs fois. Il est difficile de résumer la bataille de Verdun. On peut toutefois considérer qu'il y a deux batailles. La première de février à août 1916 qui se caractérise par l'offensive allemande et la deuxième, d'octobre 1916 à août 1917 qui correspond à la contre-offensive française. A Verdun la guerre change de dimension. Elle n'a plus rien à voir avec les premières batailles de la Marne. Elle devient à la fois beaucoup plus technique et beaucoup plus acharnée. Les deux nations y prennent conscience de leurs forces respectives et construisent leur identité dans l'héroïsme, la douleur et le carnage.
Verdun 1917
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Author : Christina Holstein
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Verdun 1917 written by Christina Holstein and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
A tour of the historic French battlefield that goes beyond the usual dates and places, and reveals the full story of the fighting after the fighting. Despite the popular view, the French army did not cease offensive operations after the disastrous Nivelle Offensive of spring 1917 and the subsequent mutinies. Nor did the fighting at Verdun come to an end in 1916. The successful French counteroffensives at the end of that year led to preliminary planning for a two Army operation in 1917 to break out of the Verdun salient and recapture the strategically very significant Briey coal basin. The French Army mutinies of May and June 1917 led to a more limited version of the plan being implemented, with the aim of establishing new lines for a breakout in 1918. The need to rebuild morale in the French army meant that nothing was left to chance. The immense logistical effort of this late summer 1917 campaign and the detailed planning and careful training at all levels brought success to an army weary of war but determined to win. The industrial nature of the preparations, the spectacular numbers of guns, and the first appearance of the Americans at Verdun presage the campaigns of 1918 and the final Allied victory. Christina Holstein, Britain’s premier expert in the battlefields around Verdun, leads the reader around the various vital points of this largely unknown battle of 1917, one which was crucial for the rebuilding of a French army that played such a notable part in the victorious Allied campaign of 1918. Like all the books in the Battleground Europe series, it is profusely illustrated and mapped using contemporary and modern material, with clear maps to support each of the tours.
Verdun 1916
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Author : William F. Buckingham
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Verdun 1916 written by William F. Buckingham and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with History categories.
A gripping narrative of the most infamous Western Front battle of the war. The British remember the Somme, Russia the Brusilov Offensive, and France and Germany remember Verdun
The Verdun Regiment
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Author : Johnathan Bracken
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-07-30
The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken 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 2018-07-30 with History categories.
This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online
The Price Of Glory
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Author : Alistair Horne
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-06-28
The Price Of Glory written by Alistair Horne and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-28 with History categories.
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.
The Battle Of Verdun
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Author : Louis Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
The Battle Of Verdun written by Louis Thomas and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... had once been a trench. At midnight on the 21st the men were in position, and our first proceeding was the propitious one of capturing sixty-three prisoners who seemed extremely glad to be robbed of the opportunity of measuring themselves against us afterwards. They rubbed their hands and looked as pleased as schoolboys to be out of the war. Among these prisoners was an officer who attempted to escape and was promptly bayoneted by the sentry who was in charge of him. Our counter-attack took place on the 22nd, at 4.30 in the morning. After a short time the Germans themselves returned to the charge and neither side could claim any definite advantage in the end. All that day incessant grenade fighting went on on both sides, while working parties attempted to consolidate the ground. At that time we had no artificial cover. Herbebois is little more than a very thick copse, in the middle of which rise some fine trees. Most of it is simple thicket. But the artillery of the Germans had reduced the wood to a skeleton, and in many places there was nothing but a complicated tangle of branches"and tree-stumps. In this maze all we could do was to make barricades of logs and organize the shell-holes. It was snowing hard and this added to the trials the men had to endure. The Germans renewed their offensive in the night of the 22nd, yet in spite of a hurricane bombardment which was especially noteworthy for its accuracy, their infantry were not able to capture an inch of ground when their turn came. Our men beat them back with devastating loss.. They suffered even more heavily on the 23rd. Once more they deluged our lines for hours on end, and this time sent against us at least the equivalent of a battalion. This attack en masse raised our men's...
Les N Cropoles Nationales De La Bataille De Verdun 1916 1917
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Author : France. Délégation à la mémoire et à l'information historique
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 20??
Les N Cropoles Nationales De La Bataille De Verdun 1916 1917 written by France. Délégation à la mémoire et à l'information historique and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 20?? with categories.
Verdun 1916
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Author : William Martin
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2004
Verdun 1916 written by William Martin and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"On 21 February 1916, German General Erich von Falkenhayn unleashed his hammer-blow offensive against the French fortress city of Verdun. His aim was nothing short of the destruction of the French army. He was sure that the symbolic value of Verdun was such that the French would be 'compelled to throw in every man they have.' He was equally sure that 'if they do so the forces of France will bleed to death.' The massed batteries of German guns would smash the French troops in their trenches and bunkers. However, the French hung on with immense courage and determination and the battle became a bloody battle of attrition"--Page 4 of cover.
The Battle Of Verdun February 21 May 7
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Author : Louis Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
The Battle Of Verdun February 21 May 7 written by Louis Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Verdun, Battle of, Verdun, France, 1916 categories.
Verdun
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Author : Paul Jankowski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014-04
Verdun written by Paul Jankowski and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04 with History categories.
Paul Jankowski offers a fresh look at Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, in a book the will surely become the standard work on the topic.