Outline History of the Great War

Klappentext Created principally for young students, this 1928 volume provides an account of the key events in the First World War. Zusammenfassung This 1928 volume provides an account of the key events in the First World War. Created principally for young students! and designed so it would be short enough to read in a single school term! the text consists of an outline narrative which provides fundamental knowledge of the British campaign. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The outbreak of war; 2. Retreat and recovery; 3. Flanders, 1914; 4. Naval operations, 1914-5; 5. The Western Front, 1915; 6. The spread of the war; 7. Gallipoli; 8. Salonica, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, to mid-1916; 9. The Western Front, October 1915-June 1916; 10. The Battle of Jutland; 11. The battle of the Somme; 12. Winter 1916-7: a general survey; 13. The Battle of Arras; 14. Salonica, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, 1916-7; 15. The Battle of Messines; 16. The Third Battle of Ypres; 17. The Battle of Cambrai; 18. Italy and Palestine, to mid-1918; 19. The German offensive on the Somme; 20. The German offensive on the Lys; 21. Naval operations, 1917-8; 22. The German offensive continues; 23. The allied counter-offensive; 24. The final offensives in Italy, the Balkans, Palestine and Mesopotamia; 25. The allied counter-offensive prevails; 26. Conclusion; Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: G. V. Carey (Editor), H. S. Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9781107648029
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64802-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I