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East Africa Volume 1. August 1914-September 1916. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume covers the first half of the campaign in E Africa, the planned second volume was never published. Of all the subsidiary enterprises undertaken during the Great War, the operations described in this volume are probably the least well known. The only British regular battalion involved w...

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FRANCE AND BELGIUM 1915 Vol 1. Winter 1914-15: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume covers the first five months of 1915, a year that brought little comfort to the BEF. In this account we read of the affairs of Cuinchy, Givenchy and St Eloi, costly actions with little or no result. The major operations were the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and the battles of Ypres (Seco...

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YPRES 1914: An Official Account Published By Order Of The German General Staff.

The full title of this book is "The Battle of the Yser and of Ypres in the Autumn 1914" and it gives equal coverage to both. It was written by a Captain Otto Schwink, a General Staff Officer, in 1917 - too close in time to the operations it describes to have permitted proper research and so provi...

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France and Belgium 1918. Vol III. May-July: The German Diversion Offensives and First Allied Counter-Attack. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume covers the period 1 May-6 August 1918 and is principally concerned with the German offensives in the French sector and the French counter-attack - Battle of the Aisne (27th May-6th June) involving the British IX Corps under French command; Battles of the Marne (20th July-2nd August) w...

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France and Belgium 1918. Vol I. Appendices. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

Thirty-two appendices with documents referring to problems and intentions of the Allies at the beginning of 1918; German plans for an offensive; British defensive measures taken on the British Third and Fifth Army fronts; and certain operation orders issued during the fighting 21st-26th March.

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France and Belgium 1916. Vol I. Appendices. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

Twenty-six appendices of documents concerning Allied plans for 1916; plan and preparations for the Somme offensive, including tactical instructions; orders for the brilliant raid carried out by 5th and 7th Canadian Infantry Battalions on La Petite Douve Farm in November 1915; and examples of corp...

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France and Belgium 1916. Vol I. Sir Douglas Haig' s Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume covers the first six and a half months of Haig's command of the BEF, culminating with the opening day of the Somme. Prior to that it gives a comprehensive account of the expansion and reorganization of the BEF from August 1914 to July 1916 as well as details of the bitter fighting on ...

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France and Belgium 1918. Vol V. 26th September - 11th November. The Advance to Victory. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume covers the final phase of the war on the Western Front. The British Army operations can be divided into three main parts: Fourth and Third Armies and the right wing of the First in the south - Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre; Second Army's separate offensive in Flanders; and the advance...

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France and Belgium 1918. Vol IV. 8th August - 26th September. The Franco-British Offensive. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

This volume opens with "the black day of the German Army", 8th August, the Battle of Amiens, the beginning of the last hundred days, and takes the story up to 26 September when the British Armies were lined up opposite the main Hindenburg position. It includes the preparations for Fourth Army's ...

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France and Belgium 1917. Vol I. The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

Held to be the best written of all the official histories of operations on the Western Front begins with a review of the allied prospects for 1917 as discussed at the Chantilly Conference and then covers the first five months of 1917: the operations on the Ancre in Jan/Feb, the German withdrawal...

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