Courage without glory : the British Army on the Western Front, 1915 /
The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defenses of the Western Front. Yet the insistent demands of coalition warfare required immediate a...
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| Language: | English |
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Warwick, England :
Helion & Company Limited,
2019.
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| Series: | Wolverhampton military studies ;
no. 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- Forgotten year / Spencer Jones
- "To make war as we must, and not as we should like': the British Army and the problem of the Western Front, 1915 / Spencer Jones
- Supply of munitions to the army, 1915 / John Mason Sneddon
- Friends disunited: Johnnie French, Wully Robertson and 'K of K' in 1915 / John Spence
- Henry Horne as Divisional Commander / Simon Robbins
- BEF takes off: the Royal Flying Corps, 1915 / Peter Hart
- British-Indian army cavalry: from mobilisation to the Western Front 1915 / Graham Winton
- Douglas Haig and the planning of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle / Patrick Watt
- Inescapable realities: Canadian command, Spring 1915 / Kenneth Radley
- Death of a battalion: the 5th King's own Royal Lancaster Regiment at the Second Battle of Ypres / Tom Williams
- Battle of Festubert / Robert Williams
- 'Seven days in hell': the 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment at the Battle of Festubert, May 1915 / Adrian Gregson
- "A coda to the Second Battle of Ypres": international trench, 6-10 July 1915 / Michael LoCicero
- "A great victory all but gained": the Battle of Loos, 1915 / Brian Curragh
- 8th division and the action at Bois Grenier, 25 September 1915 / Alun Thomas
- Gas, grenades and grievances: the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt by 46th (North Midland) Division, 13 October 1915 / Michael Woods.