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This book will be the first complete account of the operations of the Imperial German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914. The main emphasis will be placed on the battles around Ypres against 'The Old Contemptibles' of the BEF, but the fighting against the French and Belgian armies will also be featured, thus providing fresh, broader, insights into the campaign as a whole. There are those who consider that the BEF was all that saved civilisation as the first year of the Great War drew to its end.This history draws on the comprehensive histories of the participating German regiments found in the Kriegsarchiv Munich, Germany and the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart (also in Germany). The narrative adopts a chronological approach. The book focuses on some of the most bitterly disputed battles of the first three months of the war, when the Germans strained to achieve a breakthrough and the BEF resisted heroically, at the price of its own long term destruction.Once again this work employs a similar format to the Author's previous works; that is to say the greater part of the text uses the words of the German participants themselves and the primary focus of the bo

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Author

Jack Sheldon, Foreword by, Professor Hew Strachan

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Limited

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844681563

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities