BATTLEGROUND EUROPE: Loos-Hill 70 French Flanders :: The Great War :: Time Periods

The story of the fighting at Loos and Hill 70 in the autumn of 1915 - a British offensive which highlighted the shortage of shells as a material factor in the failure.

Loos is an unfashionable battle - unfairly often overlooked because of the still greater slaughters on the Somme the following year, and at Passchendaele in 1917. But, despite being a disastrous and bloody failure, Loos remained an important battle. Although the British offensive at the end of September 1915 failed to penetrate the well-constructed German defences among the pit-pitted coalfields of northern France, Loos saw the increased use of gas and the blooding of the BEF, as the last remnants of the old professional army died out and were replaced by the volunteers of Kitchener’\s New Armies. One of the reasons for the failure of the offensive was a shortage of British artillery ammunition - the so-called ‘shells shortage’ scandal, - which helped discredit the Asquith government and paved the way for the more ruthless Lloyd George’s coalition. This book., written by Andrew Rawson, an authority on the battle, tells of the sector around Loos and Hill 70

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Product Code:	6157
Author:	Andrew Rawson
ISBN:	0 85052 904 2
Format:	160pp, highly illustrated, sb Published Price £9.95
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