The Somme, Volume 1. The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917) (Albert, Bapaume, Péronne)
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About this eBook
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- Guidebooks
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49122
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49122
- Release Date
- June 3, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE SOMME VOLUME I THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916-1917) (ALBERT—BAPAUME—PÉRONNE)
- 3.THE FRANCO-BRITISH OFFENSIVE OF THE SOMME (1916). — THE OBJECTIVES OF THE OFFENSIVE. — The Theory, Methods and Tactics adopted — Equipping the Front Line — The Part Played by each Arm in the Different Phases of the Attack — The Artillery — The Infantry — The Flying Corps
- 4.THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD. — The Topography of the Ground and the Enemy Defence-works — The Different Stages of the Offensive — The Battle of Attrition — THE ATTEMPTED BREAK-THROUGH. — The British Attack — The French Attack — THE BATTLE OF ATTRITION (North of the Somme). — 1.—Widening the Front — 2.—The Surrounding and Capture of the Main Centres of Resistance — The Surrounding and Capture of Combles — The Attack of September 3 — The French Attack of the 12th — The British Attack of September 15 — The General Attack of September 25, and Capture of Combles — The Turning and Capture of Thiepval Plateau — The Attack of September 26 — The Attack of November 13 — The Advance towards the Main Objectives (Bapaume—Péronne) — The Battle of Attrition, South of the Somme — The German Retreat of March, 1917
- 5.A VISIT TO THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS.
- 6.FIRST DAY. AMIENS-ALBERT-THIEPVAL-BAPAUME. — ALBERT. — THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1916. — BAPAUME. — VISIT TO BAPAUME.
- 7.SECOND DAY. THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME-COMBLES-PÉRONNE. — PÉRONNE. — VISIT TO PÉRONNE.
- 8.ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PLACES MENTIONED IN THIS WORK.
- 9.CONTENTS
- 10.Transcriber's Notes:
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