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Oct 10, 2019 · Jonathan Boff’s unconventional biography of Crown Prince Rupprecht is the first English-language account of the military career of the heir to the Bavarian throne and one of Germany’s most senior generals in the First World War.
Mar 25, 2024 · The Battle of Flanders represents a significant chapter in the annals of World War I, embodying the brutal realities of combat within a geographically strategic region. Its multiple engagements exemplify the harsh tactics and evolving technologies that characterized modern warfare during this tumultuous period.
Sep 25, 2013 · Boff begins by reviewing the various explanations put forward previously, and identifies four main arguments: the German army lost because of Entente superiority in men and machinery; the morale of the German army had collapsed; the German army was outfought tactically; and the British exhibited superior operational art.
who has fought in this battle of Flanders. Enormous German Losses" The enemy may brush aside our ad-vance as the taking of a mud patch, but to resist he at one time or another put nearly a hundred divisions into this arena of blood, and the defense cost him a vast sum of loss in dead and wounded. 'I saw his dead in Inverness Copse and Glencorse ...
28 September-11 November 1918, the Final Advance in Flanders. The British Second Army and Belgian Army combine and finally break out of the Ypres salient. More ground is gained in a day that in the entire Passchendaele offensive of a year before.
The Battle of Flanders (French: Bataille des Flandres) is the name of several battles fought in Flanders during the First World War: First Battle of Flanders (19 October – 22 November 1914) - The First Battle of Ypres, a battle fought during the Race to the Sea.
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Assessing how far the application of modern warfare under-pinned the British army’s part in the Allied victory, the book highlights the complexity of modern warfare and the role of organisational behav-iour within it. jonathan boff is a Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham.
