A PAIRING OF COOKSEY & MURLANDS’ VISITOR’S GUIDES TO THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
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BATTLES OF ARRAS NORTH: A VISITOR’S GUIDE
Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
Covers the key battles fought in the northern sector of the Arras front, including the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge and battles at Villers au Bois, Oppy Wood and Gavrelle. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland have devised a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail.
BATTLES OF ARRAS SOUTH
South Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe
South of Arras lie some of the Western Front’s most iconic battlefields—Battery Valley, Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and Bullecourt.matched in historical significance only by Ypres and the Somme. Well illustrated and accessible, this guide enables visitors to follow the course of key engagements across today’s landscape, while offering a deeper understanding of both the brutal fighting of 1917 and the wider evolution of the war along the Western Front
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The mid-war years were momentous times. Governing politicians in Paris and London were under great pressure from the press, the people and their parliaments to win the war. Hundreds of thousands of casualties had been suffered at the battles of Gallipoli, the Somme and Verdun, with little prospect of victory in sight.
The Battle of Arras, chillingly referred to by Captain Cyril Falls, the British Official Historian, as the most ‘savage infantry battle of the war,’ was the British offensive from 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare had begun, then British advance slowed,and the German defence recovered. The battle became a costly stalemate for both sides and by the end the British Third Army and the First Army had suffered 160,000 casualties and the German 6th Army 125,000.
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| Author/Editor | Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland |
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| Product Code | 32581 |
| Delivery | This item is usually dispatched Next Day |
| Format | 2 book offer: Softback, 180 pages & 134 pages illustrated with maps and photographs |
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| Condition | New |
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