Death of a division: eight days in March 1918 and the untold story of the 66th (2/1st East Lancashire) Division
"The war had dragged on towards its fourth year. There seemed little prospect of any immediate end to the ceaseless slaughter. Field Marshal Haig saw the war as a continual battle of attrition until the Germans were finally battered into submission. In Germany the economic blockade that had bee...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The war had dragged on towards its fourth year. There seemed little prospect of any immediate end to the ceaseless slaughter. Field Marshal Haig saw the war as a continual battle of attrition until the Germans were finally battered into submission. In Germany the economic blockade that had been imposed upon it, enforced by the Royal Navy, was slowly strangling the country. The Kaiser and his generals knew that the longer the war dragged on the greater was the prospect of an Allied victory. At 09.35 hours on Thursday, 21 March 1918, one million German soldiers left their trenches to attack the British Expeditionary Force along a front of nearly fifty miles. It was Germany’s last major effort to win the war, and it very nearly succeeded. Facing the onslaught from more than forty German divisions stood just a dozen British divisions. Though overwhelmed and compelled to retreat, the British fought a tenacious rear-guard action which hampered the German attack, allowing other BEF and Allied units to take up new defensive positions. During the retreat three British divisions bore the brunt of the fighting, suffering crippling casualties. One of those was the 66th (East Lancashire) Division which lost more than 7,000 men. Effectively destroyed, the division had to be withdrawn from the line to be rebuilt. The loss of so many men had a devastating effect on the lives and economy of cotton-manufacturing towns of East Lancashire."--Publisher description |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 236 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781473844728 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Ackno wled gemen ts vii
Foreword ix
Prelude - Legend xiii
Introduction XV
Maps xix
Chapter 1 That Damned Fool 1
Chapter 2 Urgent Work 13
Chapter 3 Blood Lust 23
Chapter 4 Raids 31
Chapter 5 Night, Storm, War 44
Chapter 6 A Very Fine Mess 59
Chapter 7 The Battle of St Quentin 75
Chapter 8 We are Pushing Jerry Back 86
Chapter 9 Johnny s Coming! 98
Chapter 10 Never Retreat 114
Chapter 11 Perorme 129
Chapter 12 No Supports Remained 139
Chapter 13 We Have Won the War 155
Chapter 14 Front Line Generals 167
Chapter 15 Spirit Unbroken 180
Chapter 16 Memorial 192
Appendices 205
Order of Battle 217
Bibliography 228
Index 230
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