Loos 1915 (eBook)

Nick Lloyd (Autor)

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2008
336 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9655-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In little over three weeks of intensive fighting, which not only witnessed the first British use of poison gas, but also the debut of New Army divisions filled with citizen volunteers, British forces at Loos managed to drive up to two miles into the German positions. However, they were unable to capitalise on their initial gains. After suffering nearly 60,000 casualties (three times the number suffered by their opponents) and being driven from the German lines in disorder, bitter recrimination followed. Nick Lloyd presents a reassessment of the Battle of Loos, arguing that it was vital to the development of new strategies and tactics. He places it within its political and strategic context, as well as discusses command and control and the tactical realities of war on the Western Front during 1915.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2008
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1914 • 1918 • Army|Second Battle of Artois • Auchy • Battle of Aubers Ridge • battle of festubert • Battle of Neuve Chapelle|Nouex Les Mines • Battle of Tannenburg • Battle of the Somme • BEF • Boulogne Munitions Conference • British Expeditionary Force • Calais Conference • casualties • Champagne • Dardanelles Committee • First World War • Gallipoli • Givenchy • Haisnes • Heavy Artillery Reserve • Highland Light Infantry • Imperial War Museum • International Military Conference • King's Own Scottish Borders • King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry • King's Royal Rifle Corps|Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives • Loos • national army museum • Prime Minister Asquith • Public Record Office • Royal Army Medical Corps • Royal Artillery • Royal Engineers • Royal Field Artillery • Royal Flying Corps • Royal Garrison Artillery • Royal Horse Artillery • south african war • Special Brigade • the battle of loos • The Great War • The National Archives • Victoria Cross • War Office • World War I • World War One • wwi • Ypres
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9655-7 / 0752496557
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9655-9 / 9780752496559