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Cargando... The Battle of Loospor Philip Warner
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  JohnPhelan | Oct 4, 2016 |   Loos was a terrible slamming match fought under very wet conditions with the British poorly employing chlorine gas for he first time (the wind blew it back in their faces.) It seemed only to add to the general misery of the conditions. I did not find this book to be easy sledding. Dunno why, maybe its just the Wordsworth format. Warner gives a quick overview of the battle, and then focuses on the experiences of individual divisions. It sometimes seems a bit clunky. Some of the accounts were quite compelling. Captain Wyllie's account from the 9th (Highland) Division, Royal Scots Fusiliers was incredibly good. The book suffers a bit from being only from the British perspective. I think there is definitely room for some German accounts. (  ) ksmyth | Mar 7, 2008 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Loos is a small mining town between Lens and La Bassee in northern France. But on 25th September 1915, and for a few days after, it was the center of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the First World War. The casualties were appalling - about 60,000 of which the majority died on the first day. The main objective - a large-scale breakthrough - was not achieved although some 8,000 yards of enemy trench were captured and in some places their defenses were penetrated up to two miles. Yet if the initial gains had been exploited the course of the war might have been different. If courage and determination could have won the day by themselves. Loos would have been a success. It is these qualities which Philip Warner's narrative reveals above all. For a large part of this story of Loos consists of survivors' own accounts and diaries of the time, including that of Sir John French. The author has traced survivors from all parts of the line, infantry, gunners and officers, and through their words has revealed one of the most horrific tales of war yet to be published as well as the determination and heroism that in the end turned the scales to victory. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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That is hugely unfair. The pre war BEF met it's end at First Ypres in late 1914 and Kitchener's Army of volunteers took up the struggle at the Somme. But Loos was the battle that largely disposed of the army in the middle - that composed of a few of the original veterans, the Territorial Army recruits, and the first wave of volunteers. And they acquitted themselves brilliantly. The first day, September 25th, saw the British rupture the German lines and achieve a respectable advance. On the 26th, however, the problems which were to become so familiar - a failure of command and control, the inability to move reserves to exploit successes quickly enough - became apparent and the offensive bogged down.
This book is a good memorial to those men. In 1975, [a:Philip Warner|345182|Philip Warner|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] advertised in the Telegraph for survivors of the battle to contact him with memories, letters, or diaries. After a brief overview, Warner lets these men, fighting, in many cases, to rescue those days from memory, speak for themselves.
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