The Battle Book of Ypres
Title | The Battle Book of Ypres PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Ieper (Belgium) |
ISBN |
Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915
Title | Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915 PDF eBook |
Author | R. J. Steel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781913518059 |
A fascinating World War One history that charts the first use of chemical weapons in modern warfare. Perfect for readers of Max Hastings, Martin Middlebrook and Tim Cook. By 1915, the Western Front had descended into deadlock. Near the town of Ypres soldiers from Canada, Britain, India, France, Belgium, the French Colonies and Germany sat in long winding trenches facing each other. German commanders sought to break through the Allied lines by using a new weapon: chlorine gas. At five o'clock on 22nd April 1915 German troops opened the valves on their deadly steel cylinders and chemical warfare entered the First World War. As the thick, yellow-green cloud of smoke was carried by the wind into Allied trenches it overcame all those who breathed in its poisonous vapours. By the end of the Second Battle of Ypres thousands of men had been killed and even more were injured as a result of gas. J. McWilliams and R. J. Steel uncover this horrifying battle from beginning to end and explore what it was like the for the French Algerians who first witnessed the gas clouds approaching them, how the Canadians stubbornly refused to retreat in the face of gas, what the British and Indians hoped to achieve with their tragic counterattacks, and ultimately why the German offensive failed. Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915 discusses the course of the battle not just from the perspective of generals, but also draws information from the accounts of field commanders and men who were there in the trenches witnessing these terrifying events first-hand.
Ypres
Title | Ypres PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Beckett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317865332 |
The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.
The Battle of the Lys, 1918
Title | The Battle of the Lys, 1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Frank Baker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781526717030 |
Ypres 1914: Langemarck
Title | Ypres 1914: Langemarck PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Sheldon |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2014-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147383726X |
These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon combine their respective expertise to tell the story of the men British, French, Indian and German - who fought over the unremarkable undulating ground that was to become firmly placed in British national conscience ever afterwards.When, in October 1914, the newly created German Fourth Army attacked west to seize crossings over the Yser, prior to sweeping south in an attempt to surround the BEF, two things prevented it. To the north, it was the efforts of the Belgian army, reinforced by French troops, coupled with controlled flooding of the polders but, further south, the truly heroic defence of Langemarck, for three days by the BEF and then by the French army, was of decisive importance. The village stood as a bulwark against any further advance to the river or the town of Ypres. Here the German regiments bled to death in the face of resolute Allied defence and any remaining hope of forcing a decision in the west turned to dust.
Passchendaele in Perspective
Title | Passchendaele in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Liddle |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 638 |
Release | 2017-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0850525888 |
Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks thoroughly into the Commonwealth soldiers contribution and makes an unparalleled attempt to examine together in one volume specialist facets of the battle, the weather, field survey and cartography, discipline and morale, and the cultural and social legacy of the battle, in art, literature and commemoration. Each one of its thirty chapters presents a thought-provoking angle on the subject. They add up to an unique analysis of the battle from Commonwealth, American, German, French, Belgian and United Kingdom historians. This book will undoubtedly become a valued work of reference for all those with an interest in World War One.
The Battle Book of Ypres
Title | The Battle Book of Ypres PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrix Brice |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | 9780312019518 |
"The battle book of Ypres comprises a chronological account of the fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War, followed by a[n] ... alphabetical reference to the events in and around each hamlet, village or wood ... There is an index of formations and units, and new material in this edition includes an annotated bibliography and previously unpublished period photographs"--Jacket.