Ypres: The First Battle 1914

ISBN-13: 9781405836203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str.

Ian Beckett

Opis

The battle for Ypres in 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front for the next four years. It was an end of innocence, marking the transition between war as it had been and war as it would become. This book aims to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Maps

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Belgian option and the race to the sea

2. Four armies in Flanders Fields

3. Advance to contact

4. Kindermord

5. The South

6. Army Group Fabeck

7. Nonnebosschen

Conclusion: The immortal salient

Appendix: Orders of battle

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Professor Ian Beckett is an internationally known specialist on the Great War, his publications including acclaimed titles such as The Great War, 1914-1918 (2001), The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2003) and (co-edited with Keith Simpson) A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (1985). Ian Beckett is Professor History at the Universityof Northampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Chairman of the Army Records Society.