Author: Roger Ingpen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-01-02
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781542306355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fighting Retreat To Paris is a history of the Western Front in World War I.
Author: Roger Ingpen
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781330857830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Fighting Retreat to Paris By the middle of the third week of the war, the British Expeditionary Force - three army corps and a cavalry division - had been mobilised and sent across the Channel to France. Sir John French's force was the largest army that England had ever sent into the field at the outset of a campaign. Its mobilisation, concentration, and transport across the narrow seas had been carried out with silent efficiency. England waited confidently and patiently for the tidings of its entry into the battle line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Roger Ingpen
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781406884234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1914 in the Daily Telegraph War Books series, this book gives first-hand accounts of the early days of the war in France from those serving in all ranks.
Author: Joachim Ludewig
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0813140811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked a critical turning point in the European theater of World War II. The massive landing on France's coast had been meticulously planned for three years, and the Allies anticipated a quick and decisive defeat of the German forces. Many of the planners were surprised, however, by the length of time it ultimately took to defeat the Germans. While much has been written about D-day, very little has been written about the crucial period from August to September, immediately after the invasion. In Rückzug, Joachim Ludewig draws on military records from both sides to show that a quick defeat of the Germans was hindered by excessive caution and a lack of strategic boldness on the part of the Allies, as well as by the Germans' tactical skill and energy. This intriguing study, translated from German, not only examines a significant and often overlooked phase of the war, but also offers a valuable account of the conflict from the perspective of the German forces.
Author: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2007-01-23
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1461751551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the Normandy campaign from a German perspective Covers every point of view, from soldiers in the field to generals at high command The Allied landings in France on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in the West. Military historian Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., vividly recaptures the desperation of the Wehrmacht as its thin gray line finally snapped amidst brutal hedgerow-to-hedgerow fighting in Normandy and as the survivors fled the Allied steamroller in a mad dash back to the Reich. With colorful descriptions and informative details, Mitcham recounts the German military retreat and the erosion of Germany's stronghold in Europe--as viewed through the eyes of a defiant, but ultimately defeated, Wehrmacht.
Author: Ross Kay
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-01-20
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781495245947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Well, Leon, it looks as if there was going to be a fight around here pretty soon." "Right you are, Earl. That suits me all right though and from the way the rest of the men are acting it seems to suit them too." Earl and Leon Platt, two American boys in the army of the French Republic, were seated outside their quarters behind the fighting line. The scene was in Champagne, one of the provinces of France that already had witnessed some of the heaviest fighting of the Big War. At the outbreak of the great European struggle these twin brothers had been traveling in Europe. Earl was in England with friends and Leon was visiting his aunt and uncle in a suburb just outside of Paris. At the earliest possible moment Leon had enlisted in the French army. Assigned to the aviation corps he had taken part in the great retreat from Belgium to the gates of the French capital. Slightly wounded at Charleroi, he had been in one of the hospitals for a few days.
Author: Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Beatrice de Graaf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1108842062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.