Buy this book on-line HOLMES**, RICHARD: : THE WESTERN FRONTLONDON.BBC Worldwide Ltd.,1999. ISBN 056338493X.
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For most British people,the First World War was the Western Front,the trench line
stretching from the Swiss frontier to the North Sea.It was here that the majority of
the nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the war served and where most of the 947,000 who were killed met their deaths.'The Western Front' examines the course of the war fought on the Western Front,focusing on major themes.
Making the Front - the early days of the
war and how the front was created, highlighting the moral and material ingredients of trench warfare.
Feeding the Front - the expansion of the British Army in France in 1915 and the difficulties of supplying the front with men and munitions.
Holding the Front - the French Army and its defining battle, Verdun.
Commanding the Front - the Somme,from the less familiar viewpoint of the men who
commanded there.
Enduring the Front - the men and how they
coped with living and fighting on the front,with the French mutinies and Passchendaele.
Breaking the Front - attempts to break the trench line,from the British tank attack at Cambrai in 1917 to the great Allied offensives of the last Hundred Days of the war.
In this richly detailed and authoritative
book,Richard Holmes skilfully clarifies the complexities of the Western Front, highlighting the political,military and human dilemmas of this, the most bitter and bloody of wars.
The book was published to accompany the television series 'The Western Front' first broadcast on BBC2 in 1999.
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