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Polygon Wood

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Author : Nigel Cave
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2011-02-28

Polygon Wood written by Nigel Cave and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.

This wood featured significantly in the First and Third Battles of Ypres and was the scene of numerous deeds of heroism, such as that which won young Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bent the VC. The courage of individuals and units from Britain and Australia is described in this latest edition to the series covering Ypres.

Polygon Wood

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

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Description: [2nd] FSC 1003 27-8-17, Edn. 1, grey detail, Area: Potijze - Wieltje - St Julien - Hellfire Corner - Zillebeke - Zonnebeke - Passchendaele - Moorslede - Hooge - Menin Road - Polygon Wood - Gheluvelt - Becelaere - Terhand. O/p red 1026 5-9-17 [edition] A, German trenches corrected to 4-9-17. Approximate British Front line pecked red. O/p blue: 1029 7-9-17 Artillery Target Map September 8th 1917. Reference to Dumps (Ammunition and Supply), Occupied Huts and Billets, and Centres of Activity. Not linen-backed.

The Battle Of Polygon Wood 1917

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Author : Jonathan Passlow
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-07-15

The Battle Of Polygon Wood 1917 written by Jonathan Passlow and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-15 with History categories.

Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse of splintered stumps shattered by the devastating shellfire. The view across no man’s land revealed lines of German barbed wire and a criss-cross of heavily defended trenches. Here and there the Australians could also see solid concrete pillboxes dotted around the landscape. In the centre of the battlefield sat a huge man-made mound of earth — the Butte. Once the stop-butte for an old artillery range, this dominating feature was fortified with machine-guns, laced with barbed wire and riddled with tunnels and dugouts. The Battle of Polygon Wood was the second phase in the British forces’ advance on Passchendaele. Success at Polygon Wood would place Broodseinde Ridge within the Second Army’s reach. But the entire operation was almost blindsided by a German counter-attack on the eve of the battle. The critical situation on the Anzac Corps right was only saved by Pompey Elliott’s 15th Brigade whose desperate efforts to contain the German attack and seize the Second Army’s objectives turned a ‘fine success’ into a ‘splendid victory’. But, as author Jonathan Passlow describes in Polygon Wood 1917, this was a victory that was by no means assured and in which luck would play its part.

Battle Of Polygon Wood 1917

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Author : Jonathan Passlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03

Battle Of Polygon Wood 1917 written by Jonathan Passlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with Australia categories.

Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse of splintered stumps shattered by the devastating shellfire. The ......

The Buttes New British Cemetery New Zealand Memorial Polygon Wood Zonnebeke

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Author : Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927

The Buttes New British Cemetery New Zealand Memorial Polygon Wood Zonnebeke written by Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood (Zonnebeke, Belgium) categories.

The Monthly Army List

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Author : Great Britain. Army
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926

The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Retired military personnel categories.

Passchendaele

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Author : Robin Prior
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-26

Passchendaele written by Robin Prior and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-26 with History categories.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made by the Allies in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable nor inescapable; perhaps it was not necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, much of which has never been previously consulted, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide the fullest account of the campaign ever published. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres." It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology, and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And, most powerfully of all, they explore the experience of the soldiers in the light—whether they knew it or not—of what would never be accomplished.

Western Front 1917 1918

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Author : John Grehan
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-08-30

Western Front 1917 1918 written by John Grehan 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 2014-08-30 with History categories.

From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.??The war on the Western Front can be thought of as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as Germany attacked France and the Allies sought to halt it; second, the lengthy and terribly costly siege warfare as the entrenched lines proved impossible to crack (late 1914 to mid-1918); and finally a return to mobile warfare as the Allies applied lessons and technologies forged in the previous years.??As with previous wars, British Commanders-in-Chief of a theatre of war or campaign were obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War Office in the form of a despatch and those written from the Western Front provide a fascinating, detailed and compelling overview of this part of the First World War.??This volume concludes with Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's fascinating despatch, originally published in 1919, on the execution of the fighting on the Western Front

From Bapaume To Passchendaele 1917

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Author : Philip Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01

From Bapaume To Passchendaele 1917 written by Philip Gibbs and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Fiction categories.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917" by Philip Gibbs. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Legs Eleven

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Author : Captain Walter C. Belford
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2023-02-15

Legs Eleven written by Captain Walter C. Belford 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 2023-02-15 with History categories.

For Australia the First World War remains the most costly conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of which over 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner. In general terms with Australian unit histories the quality of authorship is very good, most of them share the common strength of making plentiful mention of the individual officers and men who served, fought, died, was wounded, or taken prisoner, or who came safely home at the end of it all. They are a prime source for genealogists and military historians.