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Detailed appendices of the battalion, including original composition, list of casualties on 1 July, and a Roll of Honour, often with an accompanying photograph.

Personal memoir of a tunnelling officer on the Western Front, by a staff officer at GHQ, with numerous illustrations and maps.

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Both Sides of the Wire is the first in a new series of battlefield guides that looks at the fighting on the Western Front

This book describes the action of 9 May 1915 when the battalions of the 1st Division, 7th Division and the Indian Army attacked Aubers Ridge. Their objective was to break the German line and cut the supply route to the enemy troops fighting to the south against a French Offensive at Vimy Ridge.

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Introducing a trilogy of books on the Battle of Ypres 1914, the last great battle of the massive clashes on the Western Front in the first, fateful months of the Great War.

A mound three miles southeast of the fiercely contested town of Ypres, Hill 60 was the scene of intense fighting throughout most of World War 1. Hill 60 was not a natural feature but had been produced by the dirt excavated in a nearby railroad cut. Neither the British nor the Germans could permit the other to occupy the hill, with its commanding view of the town of Ypres. The first German gas attack against the British in 1915 was here and the...

Introducing a trilogy of books on the Battle of Ypres 1914, the last great battle of the massive clashes on the Western Front in the first, fateful months of the Great War.

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An addition to the BATTLEGROUND EUROPE series published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Passchendaele, which gives details of the attacks and provides a guide to the battlefield as it stands today, illustrated with maps and 'then and now' photographs.

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Both Sanctuary Wood and the village of Hodge saw intense fighting during the First World War. Nigel Cave takes the reader on an explanatory tour of the immediate area. Included is a description of the museum at Hill 62 with its trench system, stereoscopic photos and weapons.

Beaumont Hamel was the Somme sector assigned as an objective to the independent-minded professional-class reservists of the London Division in 1916, they achieved better results than their more conservative comrades of the Regular Army. This "Battleground Europe" book contains all the detail, on the battle and the battlefield as it is today, that the series is famous for.

Offers new perspectives for the popular Battleground Europe series bringing in the German angle as well as the Canadian.

The book covers in detail the attacks of 14-18 July 1916 against the Bazentin Woods and villages and beyond. Walks and tours of the surroundings areas are included with detailed action maps.

This title describes the second major action fought by the British Expeditionary Force on the 26th August 1914. Five Victoria Crosses were won as the Allies took on elements of four German corps at the Battle of Le Cateau.

The principal action that took place here in February 1917 was of short duration and failure but with fascinating overtones. This is the dramatic story of the events on the Somme after the great battle of 1916 ended and before the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line. Its focus is on a ravine easily as impressive as that at Beaumont Hamel.

From the mound, or Butte, next to Polygon Wood, one can see all of World War I simply by turning around. The front line never varied more than a mile anna half in any direction from this strongpoint, in a small corner of Belgium that remained in Allied hands throughout the war.

Examines some of the incidents and individuals associated with this infamous battleground. Illus.