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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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DVD THE SOMME: From Defeat to Victory
The Somme is usually seen as the darkest hour of the British Army. Almost 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day of battle alone, and a further 37,000 were wounded. British commanders were vilified and the Somme became synonymous with military incompetence. But there was more to the Somme ...
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DVD THE LAST GREAT OFFENSIVES 1917-1918
The Allied offensive, which began in late summer 1917, was fought in some of the most atrocious conditions imaginable. Lashing rain had turned the shell-cratered Flanders fields into a treacherous sucking quagmire of liquid mud. Bogged down and with 225,000 casualties, the Allies desperately need...
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DVD THE BATTLE OF VIMY RIDGE
For two years, the Germans had been preparing for the deep fortifications along the Vimy Ridge, a natural defensive position that rose to 500 feet and stretched for five miles north of the French City of Arras. They thought it was impregnable.
At dawn on Easter Monday, April 9th 1917, four Canadi...
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BBC`s GREAT WAR
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At last, the most famous and arguably the greatest of the Great War epics, for so long kept under wraps by the BBC, is now available to the general public. The DVD set also includes another disc containing additional footage of interviews with veterans and also a training film.
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BATTLE OF THE FRONTIERS: ARDENNES 1914
In this, amazingly the first account in English of its subject, US soldier and military historian Terence Zuber describes the Great War’s decisive opening action - the great Franco-German ‘battle of the frontiers’ in August 1914. He concludes that the battles - traditionally seen as a hopeless ma...
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Digging the Trenches
The Archaeology of the Western Front
Modern research methods - archaeological, historical, forensic - have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true of the history of the Great War. In this, the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field, Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to the techn...
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