The Great War on the Western Front
A Short History
Published on 24. January 2020
176 pages
978-1-84468-931-6 (ISBN)
Description
The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century. Most people hold it in their minds as a milestone in modern history, yet many of them know less about this devastating clash of nations than they would like-and they would be interested to discover more. Paddy Griffith's short history of the conflict has been written with them in mind. It provides an accessible primer to an enormous and fascinating subject. His account is aimed at an English-speaking readership, and he concentrates on the part played by British Expeditionary Force and the Americans in the conflict. The French and German perspectives are also explained and the wider political and strategic evolution of the war as a whole is laid out as essential background.
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Paddy Griffith was a senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst for sixteen years, and is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of warfare.
Content
- Intro
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - The Start of the War and of the Western Front
- The Start of the War
- The Opening of the Western Front
- Chapter 2 - Late 1914 and the Battles of 1915: Birth of a New Style of Warfare
- 1915: A Year of Frustration
- The Costs of "Trenchlock
- Chapter 3 - The Battle of Verdun, 1916
- Von Falkenhayn's Assault
- The French Counter-Attack
- Chapter 4 - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
- The Big Push
- The Long Haul
- Chapter 5 - Spring 1917
- The Hindenburg Line
- The Nivelle Offensive
- Passchendaele
- The Start of the Attack
- Plumer Takes Over
- Chapter 7 - The Bitter Winter of 1917-18
- The March Offensive
- The German Offensives Continue
- Chapter 8 - The Flashing Sword of the Counter-Offensive
- The Battles of Amiens and Peronne
- From the Hindenburg Line to the Armistice
- Chapter 9 - The American Contribution to Victory
- Who Won the War?
- The Meuse-Argonne
- Chapter 10 - The Western Front as a Historigraphical Phenomenon
- Immediate Perceptions
- The Second Generation
- Notes
- Glossary of Terms
- Further Reading: A Short Annotated Bibliography
- Index
