Cheerful Sacrifice
eBook - ePub

Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

About this book

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.
Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare.
In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.

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Information

Topic
History
Subtopic
World War I
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Maps
  7. Dedication
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I – Trenches and Tunnels
  11. Part II – The Day of Doings: 9 April, 1917
  12. Part III – A Victory Wasted
  13. Plates
  14. Appendix I: Skeleton Order of Battle (and Casualties), British Divisions
  15. Appendix II: Skeleton Order of Battle, German Divisions
  16. Appendix III: Victoria Cross Awards
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index