Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies Experience of the Third Battle of Ypres
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Название: Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies Experience of the Third Battle of Ypres
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Автор: Robert J. Parker
Год выпуска: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,5 МБ
ISBN: 968697112472
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies Experience of the Third Battle of Ypres БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: It seems absurd to claim it, but the Battle of Passchendaele was in many ways worse than the Somme.The British offensive, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was launched on the Belgium battlefield at 3.30 a.m. on 31 July 1917. It was a massive effort by General Sir Douglas Haig and the British Army to achieve a strategic breakthrough and defeat Germany. Attrition would defeat a Germany that was, many believed, on the ropes. Just one more big push would secure victory “ yet it failed.
Passchendaele continued until November 1917 and became synonymous with the tragedy of the Great War: abominable weather, mud and filth; horrific injuries inflicted by increasingly industrialised warfare including tanks, gas, mines and flamethrowers; the enormous casualties (600,000) and the futility of the operation all combined to form a nightmare vision of war in the trenches.