British Campaign in France and Flanders

Conan Doyle Arthur

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN two previous volumes of this work a narrative has been given Of those events which occurred upon the British Western Front during 1914, the year of recoil.

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• Histoire
• Military history

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243705009
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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previous volumes th s work a narrative has been given those events which occurred upon the British Wes t ern Front during the year recoil a In t s vol end the year equilibrium will be found t the sthe detailed story the ye a rs a ttac k and advance Time is a g eat toner down Of superlatives and the episodes which seem world shaking in our day may when loo k storicaled upon by the placid eyes philosophers in days to come more easily into the general scheme human experience None the less it c an be said without fe a contradictionr timate that nothing appro a the Sommeching to the Battle with which t his volume is mainly concerned has ever been k and that it is exceednown in military history improb a ble that it will ever be equalled in its length and in its severity It may be said to have raged with short intermissions caused by the breaking the weather from July to November a nd during this prolonged period the picked forces three great n a tions were locked in close battle The number Of combatants from rst t o last was between

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a nd three their united casualtiesllions and came to the appalling total at least three quarters Of a million These are minimum gures but they will give some idea the unparalleled scale the operations With the increasing number a the unitsnd size employed the scale the narrative becomes larger It is more dif cult ocus the battalion while the in vidual has almost dropped sight Sins omission are many and the chronicler can but plead the great di culty his task and regret that li ted knowledge may occasionally cause dis appointment T he author should explain that t s volume has had to pass through three lines censors su ering heavily in the process It has come with the loss all personal names save those Of casualties high Generals Some passages also have been excised O n the other hand it is the rst which has been permitted reveal the exact identity the u ts engaged The missing passages and names will be restored when the days peace return

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