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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 ......
Passchendaele
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Author : Philip Warner
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2005-07-30
Passchendaele written by Philip Warner 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 2005-07-30 with History categories.
Nearly ninety years ago, on 31st July 1917, the small Belgian village of Passchendaele became the focus for one of the most gruelling, bloody and bizarre battles of World War 1. By 6th November, when Passchendaele village and the ridge were captured, over half a million British, French, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and Germans had become casualties. Philip Warner, the noted historian of twentieth-century warfare and the author of over fifty books on military history, many published by Pen & Sword, has skilfully brought together all the elements of this horrific campaign - the historical background, personal accounts, strategies and tactics, the personalities and the political manoeuvres. He investigates the issues which had a crucial effect on the course of the battle, including the mutinous state of the French army, the bombardment which destroyed the drainage system, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's determination to continue operations despite the appalling weather and ground conditions, and the stormy relationship between Haig and Lloyd George. However, it is the determined fighting ability and the bravery of the allied soldiers, rather than the tactical plans of the commanders, that dominate this detailed and totally absorbing account of the harrowing four-month campaign called the Battle of Passchendaele.Passchendaele is a masterly and timely analysis of one of the most important battles in history.
From Bapaume To Passchendaele 1917
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Author : Philip Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1965-01-01
From Bapaume To Passchendaele 1917 written by Philip Gibbs and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965-01-01 with Fiction categories.
1917.... I suppose that a century hence men and women will think of that date as one of the world's black years flinging its shadow forward to the future until gradually new generations escape from its dark spell. To us now, only a few months away from that year, above all to those of us who have seen something of the fighting which crowded every month of it except the last, the colour of 1917 is not black but red, because a river of blood flowed through its changing seasons and there was a great carnage of men. It was a year of unending battle on the Western Front, which matters most to us because of all our youth there. It was a year of monstrous and desperate conflict. Looking back upon it, remembering all its days of attack and counter-attack, all the roads of war crowded with troops and transport, all the battlefields upon which our armies moved under fire, the coming back of the prisoners by hundreds and thousands, the long trails of the wounded, the activity, the traffic, the roar and welter and fury of the year, one has a curious physical sensation of breathlessness and heart-beat because of the burden of so many memories. The heroism of men, the suffering of individuals, their personal adventures, their deaths or escape from death, are swallowed up in this wild drama of battle so that at times it seems impersonal and inhuman like some cosmic struggle in which man is but an atom of the world's convulsion. To me, and perhaps to others like me, who look on at all this from the outside edge of it, going into its fire and fury at times only to look again, closer, into the heart of it, staring at its scenes not as men who belong to them but as witnesses to give evidence at the bar of history—for if we are not that we are nothing—and to chronicle the things that have happened on those fields, this sense of impersonal forces is strong. We see all this in the mass. We see its movement as a tide watched from the bank and not from the point of view of a swimmer breasting each wave or going down in it. Regimental officers and men know more of the ground in which they live for a while before they go forward over the shell-craters to some barren slope where machine-guns are hidden below the clods of soil, or a line of concrete blockhouses heaped up with timber and sand-bags on one of the ridges.
The Great Events Of The Great War A D 1917
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Author : Charles Francis Horne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
The Great Events Of The Great War A D 1917 written by Charles Francis Horne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
1917 Ypres
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Author : Dr Richard Reid
language : en
Publisher: DVA Anzac Portal
Release Date : 2012-08-01
1917 Ypres written by Dr Richard Reid and has been published by DVA Anzac Portal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Australians on the Western Front series. In 1917, the British mounted a massive campaign east of Ypres. The Flanders Offensive involved all five divisions of the AIF, and cost Australia more than 12,000 dead and thousands more wounded. This book offers a concise account of the offensive, and features many striking black and white photographs from the campaign.
The Battle Of Menin Road 1917
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Author : Roger Lee
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-07-05
The Battle Of Menin Road 1917 written by Roger Lee 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 2018-07-05 with History categories.
The Passchendaele Campaign of 1917 is associated with images of slimy, oozing mud: mud deep enough and glutinous enough to drown men, horses and equipment, mud so pervasive that it, rather than the enemy, defeated the British Army’s only major campaign in Belgium. While these images are certainly true for the opening and final months of the campaign, mud was not he defining experience for the infantry of the Australian First and Second Divisions when, for the first time in history, two Australian Divisions fought a battle side by side in the Battle of Menin Road. For them, the defining experience was a well planned, well-conducted attack that saw all the objectives achieved in very short time. Menin Road was the third of the series of battles that together made up the Passchendaele (Third Ypres) Campaign. Intended to capture the high ground of the Gheluvelt Plateau east of Ypres to protect the right flank of the British Army advancing to its north, it was a difficult assignment. Earlier British attempts to clear the Plateau had been repulsed with heavy losses. With overwhelming artillery and air support, sound preparation and with limited objectives, the attack on 20 September surpassed all expectations. It was a classic example of how well-prepared and well-supported infantry could take and hold ground. However, as is explained in the book, it was also a classic example of why this operational method was too slow and would never win the war on the Western Front.
Ypres 1917 A Personal Account
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Author : Norman Gladden
language : en
Publisher: Sapere Books
Release Date : 2023-01-22
Ypres 1917 A Personal Account written by Norman Gladden and has been published by Sapere Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Features a collection of photographic images of the Third Battle of Ypres (1917) in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium during World War I, presented by YITM. Notes that the photographs form part of the Liddle Collection of the University of Leeds Library in Leeds, England.
Battle Story Passchendaele 1917
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Author : Chris McNab
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-12-01
Battle Story Passchendaele 1917 written by Chris McNab and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with History categories.
Passchendaele 1917 is the story of one of the most pitiless and iconic battles of the First World War, known today as Third Ypres. Fought over three tortuous months in 1917, the fighting raged through some of the worst physical conditions of the entire war, across battlefields collapsing into endless mud and blood. Eventually, more than 500,000 casualties bought front-line changes measured only in hundreds of yards. If you truly want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story.
Events Leading Up To And Including The Action Of September 26th 1917 Polygon Wood 14th Australian Field Ambulance
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Author : Sir William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
Events Leading Up To And Including The Action Of September 26th 1917 Polygon Wood 14th Australian Field Ambulance written by Sir William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Physicians (General practice) categories.
A record of the role of the year of the 14th Australian Field Ambulance during the Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the 3rd Battle of Ypres.