A new look at Loos, the disastrous offensive that capped 1915, a year of failure for the Allies on the western front. Guirkha officer turned historian Gordon Corrigan re-assesses the bloody battle and explains why and how it failed.

Loos, in September 1915, was the first of the great bloodlettings in which Britain’s armies struggled in vain to break the stalemate of the trenches on the western front with an unsuccessful and costly offensive. The battle saw the first British use of poison gas - introduced by the Germans at Ypres the previous April; - and the first deployment of the ‘New Armies’ - the citizen volunteers who had answered Kitchener’s call to arms in 1914. The failure of the attack was the catalyst for the removal of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir John French, and his replacement by Sir Douglas Haig, who would fail on an even grander scale on the Somme the following year. Gurkha officer turned military historian Gordon Corrigan tells the story of this important but often overlooked battle by going back to contemporary accounts and war diaries to re-assess both the competence of the commanders and the quality of the men who fought.

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Product Code:	10568
Author:	Gordon Corrigan
Format:	174pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £18.99
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