In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army...
A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
by Rose E. B. Coombs
Edited by Karel Margry
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781870067621
Pub Date: 2023-05-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: After the Battle
248 Pages
From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War — Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le Cateau, Reims, Verdun and St Mihiel — are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes.
Mœuvres and Bourlon, Cantaing and Graincourt to Flesquières, Masnières, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu
by Jerry Murland
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781399017435
Pub Date: 2022-12-14
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
192 Pages
The 1917 Battle of Cambrai featured the first massed tank attack in military history and provoked the biggest German counter-attack against the British since 1914. The British aimed to break through the German Hindenburg Line, then threaten the rear of the German positions to the north.
Much of the popular attention on the Battle of the Somme 1916 is focussed on the first day of the infantry assault, 1st July, when such high hopes were dashed and British casualties ran into the tens...
The Americans had considerable initial success when they launched their huge offensive against the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne in the last days of September 1918. However, not everything went smoothly...
Beaucourt and Mametz Wood to the Butte de Warlencourt
by Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781526738127
Pub Date: 2021-06-14
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
240 Pages
In their second Visitor’s Guide to the 1916 Battle of the Somme Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland focus on the series of secondary battles that were key stages in the five-month struggle that followed...
For many years the Holts have provided tourers to the battlefields with excellent mapping for the Ypres Salient and the Somme. This map of the Verdun/Meuse area fills one of the many gaps in the coverage of the Western Front.
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