
Loos 1915
Nick Lloyd(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 15. November 2006
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7524-3937-2 (ISBN)
Description
In little over three weeks of intensive fighting, which not only witnessed the first British use of poison gas, but also the debut of New Army divisions filled with citizen volunteers, British forces at Loos managed to drive up to two miles into the German positions. However, they were unable to capitalise on their initial gains. After suffering nearly 60,000 casualties (three times the number suffered by their opponents) and being driven from the German lines in disorder, bitter recrimination followed. Nick Lloyd presents a reassessment of the Battle of Loos, arguing that it was vital to the development of new strategies and tactics. He places it within its political and strategic context, as well as discusses command and control and the tactical realities of war on the Western Front during 1915.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-3937-2 (9780752439372)
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Dr Nick Lloyd is currently Air Power Lecturer at King's College London, based at the Royal Air Force College in Cranwell, Lincolnshire. He completed his PhD on the battle of Loos at the University of Birmingham. He had spoken widely on the British Army on the Western Front and is the author of several journal articles. He lives in Lincoln.