LEADER 03531nam 22004453 450 001 9910164076903321 005 20210901202855.0 010 $a1-78289-084-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001057010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4807205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4807205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11348070 035 $a(OCoLC)974593258 035 $a(UtSlPG)39158 035 $a(NjHacI)993710000001057010 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001057010 100 $a20210901d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe First Seven Divisions, Being A Detailed Account Of The Fighting From Mons To Ypres. [Illustrated Edition] 205 $aIllustrated edition. 210 1$aSan Francisco :$cVerdun Press,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012. 215 $a1 online resource (124 pages) 327 $aIntro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS USED -- LIST OF MAPS -- BEFORE MONS -- THE BATTLE OF MONS -- THE RETREAT FROM MONS -- THE FIGHT AT LANDRECIES -- MAROILLES -- THE LE CATEAU PROBLEM -- LE CATEAU -- THE RETREAT FROM LE CATEAU -- VILLERS-COTTERE?TS -- NE?RY -- THE ADVANCE TO THE AISNE -- THE PASSAGE OF THE AISNE -- TROYON -- VERNEUIL -- SOUPIR -- THE AISNE -- MAN?UVRING WESTWARD -- FROM ATTACK TO DEFENCE -- THE BIRTH OF THE YPRES SALIENT -- THE STAND OF THE FIFTH DIVISION -- NEUVE CHAPELLE -- PILKEM -- THE SECOND ADVANCE -- THE FIGHTING AT KRUISEIK -- THE LAST OF KRUISEIK -- ZANDVOORDE -- GHELUVELT -- MESSINES AND WYTSCHATE -- KLEIN ZILLEBEKE -- THE RELIEF OF THE SEVENTH DIVISION -- ZWARTELEN -- THE PRUSSIAN GUARD ATTACK -- EPITAPH. 330 $aThe opening of the First World War pitted the huge continental armies against each other; massed conscription filled their ranks, Britain's soldiers, however, were to a man volunteer, long-service professionals. Disciplined, few in number but thoroughly trained to shoot 15 aimed shoots in a "mad-minute", they were but few in number. The German forces they faced on the Western Front were counted by the number of their armies, the British forces could only put seven divisions in the field initially. In the face of overwhelming numbers the British soldiers gave a good account of themselves and held up the German advance during the crucial opening phases of the campaign alongside their French allies. The German High command had not counted on such stubborn resistance such a spanner in the works were they and their fighting prowess that the Kaiser himself paid the brave few the ultimate compliment- "It is my Royal and Imperial command that you concentrate your energies, for the immediate present, upon one single purpose, and that is that you address all your skill and all the valour of my soldiers to exterminate first the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army."--Kaiser Wilhelm 19th August 1914. Written by Lord Hamilton, at the time a Captain in the 11th Hussars, this is an excellent and highly detailed account of the early months of the First World War on the British Front. 606 $aMilitary campaigns 615 0$aMilitary campaigns. 676 $a938.07 700 $aHamilton$b Captain Lord Ernest William$01079668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164076903321 996 $aThe First Seven Divisions, Being A Detailed Account Of The Fighting From Mons To Ypres.$92592325 997 $aUNINA