Germans at Thiepval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheldon, Jack.

Series:

Battleground Somme

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1918-1930.

Local Subjects:

Germany--History--Allied occupation, 1918-1930.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Pen and Sword, 2006.

Summary:

Ninety years after the Battle of the Somme was fought, visitors continue to flock in very large numbers to the massive Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval, site of a bitter three-month struggle during the summer of 1916. This book explains in detail how, from the autumn of 1914 onwards, the German defenders turned this key feature into a virtually impregnable position, from which they were able for weeks on end to repulse every attempt to capture it. Drawing on original maps, photographs and personal accounts of the German defenders, the reader is taken stage by stage through the battles for t

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS""; ""INTRODUCTION BY SERIES EDITIOR""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""Chapter 1 - VISITING THIEPVAL AND THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS""; ""General""; ""Insurance and Medical""; ""Independent Travellers""; ""Accommodation""; ""Useful Books""; ""Maps""; ""Clothing and Personal Equipment""; ""Refreshments""; ""Dogs""; ""Battlefield Debris""; ""Chapter 2 - EARLY DAYS AT THIEPVAL""; ""Chapter 3 - THE DECEMBER 1914 BATTLES FOR THE OVILLERS SPUR""; ""Chapter 4 - THE BOMBARDMENT""

""Chapter 5 - 1 AND 2 JULY 1916""""Chapter 6 - THE FALL OF THIEPVAL SEPTEMBER 1916""; ""Chapter 7 - WALKS""; ""Walk 1: - Ovillers Spur and Nordwerk""; ""Walk 2""; ""Walk 3: - Thiepval Memorial Orientation Walk""; ""Walk 4: - Hanseatic Position, Artillery Hollow [Battery Valley] and the German Second Position from Grandcourt to Mouquet Farm""; ""The Alleged Vulnerability of the German Second Position on 1 July 1916""; ""Chapter 8 - CAR TOUR OF THE REAR AREA""; ""German Organisation in the Thiepval-Ovillers Area""; ""Selective Index""

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ISBN:

9781783402090

1783402091

9781783409372

1783409371

OCLC:

854974990