Battle of Neuve Chapelle (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley, 1998
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. Neuve Chappelle and the La Bassee Canal first became famous in early 1915, as World went into its second year. Fighting had bogged down in the winter of 1914 as the battered armies of both sides built the first trench systems. The French wanted to use the new year to recover the rich agricultural area of northeastern France, which also contained the Champagne region. Britain's regular army, sadly depleted in the fighting of 1914, had been replenished over the winter by the Territorial Army, pre-war reservists from the commercial classes known for strong self-discipline and initiative. A well-planned British offensive on March 10 in aid of the French made some initial gains before being contained and driven back by the Germans, a dreary pattern to be repeated endlessly over the next four years. This new volume in the Battleground Europe series covers an interesting region of France that was fought over by some of the best troops of both sides. Full details of the 1915 and later fighting are given, backed up by numerous illustrations and maps, and a guide to the battlefield as it is today. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Battle of Neuve Chapelle (Paperback)
- Author
- Geoff Bridger
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0850526485
- ISBN 13
- 9780850526486
- Series
- Book 16 of 82: Battleground French Flanders
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From the Author
THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle [French Flanders] by Geoff Bridger is the first full and copiously illustrated account of that battle ever to be published. Researched from primary sources, it chronicles the fighting from various perspectives. The many maps and photographs illustrate the progress of the struggle throughout those fateful four days in March 1915. The reasons for the costly failure and the responsibility of the persons involved are recounted in depth. The book contains 144 pages with 15 maps and over 120 pictures, many of which have never been previously published.
By early 1915 a stalemate situation in the Great War existed on the Western Front with trench lines stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland. Mighty armies faced each other and jockeyed for positions of advantage. The British Expeditionary Force under Field Marshal Sir John French devised an innovative plan which if successful, would have considerably shortened the war.
General Haig was given the job of breaking through the German lines on a broad front at Neuve Chapelle and then seize the high ground protecting the vital pivotal town of Lille. Two powerful units from the British and Indian forces were assigned the task and assembled the greatest concentration of artillery thus far in the war. Speed and surprise were essential and initially the battle went almost to plan. Then things began to go wrong.
I commend this book, which took over one year to research, and which devotes itself to one of those much neglected areas of bitter fighting that lay between the popular and oft visited Ypres Salient and the Somme.
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