The Passchendaele campaign, 1917 /
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force's battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping. The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 1...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK :
Pen & Sword Military,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Regimental abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. A growing danger
- 2. Hell itself burst forth
- 3. Each a volcano in itself
- 4. More like a picnic than a battle
- 5. A change from going over the top
- 6. Every time a coconut
- 7. A perfect inferno
- 8. A very weak and disorganised state
- 9. Hard going through the mud
- 10. Bite and hold
- 11. A killing by the artillery
- 12. Like spectres out of the mist
- 13. Everything is absolutely très bon
- 14. Men plunged onward into the sticky gloom
- 15. A great keenness and determination
- 16. Like beaters on a pheasant shoot
- 17. An incredible degree of mismanagement
- 18. Rain is our one effective ally
- 19. No troops have had to face worse conditions
- 20. They touched bottom on the way to misery
- Conclusions on the campaign.