The Retreat From Mons 1914 North

Author : Jon Cooksey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783030380
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons 1914: North written by Jon Cooksey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First World War. All the most famous battle sites of the Great Retreat are featured here. ??Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked or biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. ??Their highly illustrated guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish enhance their understanding of the fast-moving campaign that preceded the war in the trenches. It gives a fascinating insight into the experience of the troops, the terrain over which they fought and the character of fighting itself.??As featured in the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald.

Author : Jon Cooksey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473835003
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons 1914: North written by Jon Cooksey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First World War. All the most famous battle sites of the Great Retreat are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked or biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their highly illustrated guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish enhance their understanding of the fast-moving campaign that preceded the war in the trenches. It gives a fascinating insight into the experience of the troops, the terrain over which they fought and the character of fighting itself.As featured in the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald.

Author : Jon Cooksey
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Author : George Stuart Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons written by George Stuart Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chad R. Gaudet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons, 1914 written by Chad R. Gaudet and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Corbett-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons written by Arthur Corbett-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Cooksey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473840767
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Retreat from Mons 1914: South written by Jon Cooksey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the conflict all the important battle sites of the second stage of the retreat are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred at each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened and why and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain for the visitor to see.Their highly illustrated guidebook is essential reading for visitors who wish to enhance their understanding of the fast-moving campaign that preceded the war in the trenches. It gives a fascinating insight into the experience of the troops, the terrain over which they fought and the character of the fighting itself.

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840222432
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mons written by John Terraine and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000-01-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice in the 20th century, a British Expeditionary Force has taken the field in Northern France to fight beside the French Army. Twice, the Expeditionary Force has survived threat of complete destruction. But the differences between the Retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the first encounter with the enemy at Mons in 1914 are significant.

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Author : Jerry Murland
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473841194
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book Retreat of I Corps 1914 written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 23 August 1914 it was only the two divisions of General Smith-Dorrien's II Corps that were directly engaged with the German First Army along the line of the Mons-Conde Canal. As the British Expeditionary Force withdrew from Mons and bivouacked around Bavay on 25 August, Sir John French and his GHQ advisors unsure of the condition of the routes through the Fort de Mormal - ordered the British Expeditionary Force to continue their retirement the next day and to avoid the 35 square miles of forest roads.Consequently II Corps used the roads to the west of the Fort de Mormal and Sir Douglas Haig's I Corps those to the east with the intention that the four divisions should meet again at Le Cateau. It was an intention that was ambushed by circumstance as I Corps encountered units of the German 7th Division at Landrecies on 25/26 August. Unsure of the weight of the German attack at Landrecies, Douglas Haig hurriedly left for Grand Fayt and ordered his two divisions to immediately begin their retirement along a route that would take them west of Le Cateau. It was this decision that kept the by now five divisions of the BEF apart until 1 September and is the subject of this book. I Corps was now coming under attack from the German Second Army and the resulting rearguard actions that Haig's men were involved in are covered in this volume: