Strategy and command : The Anglo-French coalition on the Western Front, 1915 /
"Falling between the "War of Movement" in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever increasing offensives to break through the German trenches, Britain shifted its strategy from defence of empire to total co...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. |
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the Stage: The Political and Military Background
- Trench Warfare: Strategic Re-Evaluation and the Zeebrugge-Ostend Coastal Plan, December 1914-13 January 1915
- Conflicting Strategies: The 29th Division and Neuve Chapelle, 14 January-13 March 1915
- Planning the Spring Offensive and the Command Issue, 14 March-20 April 1915
- Second Ypres and Joint Planning for the Artois Offensive, 22 April-8 May 1915
- Operations: The Artois Offensive, 9 May-25 June 1915
- Catalyst for Change: Impact of the Artois Offensive
- Strategic Conflict: The Calais and Chantilly Conferences, July 1915
- Objections to Loos and British Strategic Reversal, July-August 1915
- Operations: The Loos and Artois-Champagne Offensive, September-October 1915
- Salonika, Egypt, and the Western Front, September-December 1915
- Preparation for 1916: Leadership Changes and Strategic Coordination
- Reflections and Conclusions.