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Chargement... La bataille de Mons 20/23 août 1914par John Terraine
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Thoroughly enjoyable depiction of the beginning of the First World War, starting with the BEF’s first contact with the German Army near Mons, and concluding with the Allied victory at the Battle of the Marne. The focus is largely on the generalship, reflecting not well on Sir John French or the communication between the French and the British. Joffre comes off very well, as does a relatively ‘unknown’, General d’ Esperey who conceived the plan that pushed the Germans back from the Marne to the Aisne. While the author does not dwell on the misery and loss of life, the numbers and the situations speak clearly about the tragic cost of lack of communication and lack of coherent strategy, and more still about the ignorance of throwing humans into fire. There are also several references to German mistreatment of Belgian civilians, which clearly is not far from the front of this writer’s consciousness. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The Battle of Mons takes its place in the history of the British army beside Corunna and Dunkirk. Initially, all three were defeats, saved from disaster by the courage of the soldiers and the skill of some of the commanders in the field, and paving the way to great feats of arms and final success. In the context of the whole of the First World War, Mons was a small scale affair; comparatively short in duration, involving divisions rather than armies, and resulting in casualties that were light indeed by the standard of later battles of attrition. But, especially from the British viewpoint, its importance was crucial, partly because it was the first time for close on a hundred years that a British Army had been engaged in warfare on the continent of Europe, and partly because that army passed straight form the dejection of defeat to the exhilaration of the Battle of the Marne - one of the decisive battles of the War Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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