Add to ORKGThe Battle of the Sambre was the last large-scale set-piece battle of the Great War. The German army was determined to hold a defensive line incorporating the Mormal Forest and the Sambre-Oise canal, hoping to buy time for a strategic withdrawal to the Meuse and thereby negotiate a compromise peace. This thesis analyses the battle at the operational and tactical levels: the BEF was no longer striving for a breakthrough – sequential ‘bite and hold’ was now the accepted method of advance. The difference between plan and reality is examined, highlighting the levels of tactical competence of units engaged and also the role of the Royal Engineers, whose tasks involved devising improvised bridging equipment to facilitate the crossing of the wa...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
The historiography on the conduct of British military operations, 1914-1918, is geographically narro...
Thesis submitted for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy by the University of Wolverham...
A thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton f...
The idea of a learning process has become broadly accepted among military historians of the First Wo...
This is a study of the British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. It ...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for ...
Casualties during the First World War were far higher than had been anticipated in pre-war planning....
This MPhil thesis is a case study of the British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front during ...
The first major action of the 1st Anzac Corps on the Western Front was the Battle of Pozières Ridge,...
At its most fundamental level, the First World War in northern Europe was fought between two competi...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
This paper focuses on the unique ability of the British 18th Division to attain all of its allocated...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
Bad planning has become a standard explanation in the historiography of World War Ifor poor British ...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
The historiography on the conduct of British military operations, 1914-1918, is geographically narro...
Thesis submitted for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy by the University of Wolverham...
A thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton f...
The idea of a learning process has become broadly accepted among military historians of the First Wo...
This is a study of the British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. It ...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for ...
Casualties during the First World War were far higher than had been anticipated in pre-war planning....
This MPhil thesis is a case study of the British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front during ...
The first major action of the 1st Anzac Corps on the Western Front was the Battle of Pozières Ridge,...
At its most fundamental level, the First World War in northern Europe was fought between two competi...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
This paper focuses on the unique ability of the British 18th Division to attain all of its allocated...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
Bad planning has become a standard explanation in the historiography of World War Ifor poor British ...
The Battle of Beersheba, fought on October 31, 1917, was a vital turning point in the British campai...
The historiography on the conduct of British military operations, 1914-1918, is geographically narro...
Thesis submitted for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy by the University of Wolverham...