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Western Front
Trench warfare was not totally unknown in 1914, medieval sieges and the Crimean and American Civil Wars had all seen it, None could have foretold what a permanent feature of the conflict it would become when the armies stopped moving and the lines solidified that September. The technical superiority of the defence over the offensive dictated both the static nature of the western front, and the high casualty rates as Allied commanders tried again and again to break through fields of barbed wire and brutal machine gun fire with waves of men. Only technological developments such as the tank, poison gas, underground and aerial warfare, economic blockade and more sophisticated infantry 'bite and hold' tactics served to break the deadlock. By then a generation had been lost. The Naval and Military Press have an unrivaled stock of books on the western front, and the heroic but tragic fighting that characterised it.
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TUNNELLERS
A history of the Tunnelling Companies, RE, during the Great War and the war underground. Thirty-two British and Dominion companies were formed. Tasks included dealing with booby traps, demolitions and anti-tank mines. A very good, comprehensive account.
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“GAS!” The Story of the Special Brigade
Gas was first used by the British at Loos 1915. This book describes gas operations on the Western front, the planning, organising and training of what came to be known as The Special Brigade (RE), written by the man responsible for it and who was the adviser at GHQ on gas warfare.
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ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION
Formed in September 1914 from Royal marines and naval reservists surplus to sea-going requirements. Battalions named after famous admirals. Antwerp 1914, Gallipoli, France May 1916 when it passed from Admiralty to War Office control and was numbered 63. Western Front for the rest of the war, near...
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GERMAN CAVALRY 1914 IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE
A rare account of the role of the German cavalry -the feared Uhlans - in the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914. Written by a cavalry General, it gives a minutely detailed picture of the cavalry’s last great campaign.
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Western Front 1914-1918
Typically trenchant essays from the pen of the late John Terraine, defending the conduct of the Great War on the western front by Haig and Plumer; and attacking the political interference of Lloyd George.
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VIMY
Meticulous account of the successful storming of Vimy RIdge by the Canadian Corps in April 1917 - a rare Allied success on the western front, and a milestone in the moulding of Canada as a nation.
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