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Haig's Enemy
Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
Buch von Jonathan Boff
Sprache: Englisch

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The war on the Western Front as seen through the eyes of one of Germany's leading First World War generals, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. A fascinating and highly revealing view from the 'other side of the wire', which casts the story of the Western Front in an entirely new light.
The war on the Western Front as seen through the eyes of one of Germany's leading First World War generals, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. A fascinating and highly revealing view from the 'other side of the wire', which casts the story of the Western Front in an entirely new light.
Über den Autor
Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War and his previous book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (CUP, 2012) was short-listed for the Templer Medal and for the British Army Book of the Year award. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and the Department of War Studies, King's College London and spent twenty years working in finance before returning to academia. He serves on the councils of the National Army Museum and Army Records Society, has worked as a historical consultant with the British Army and the BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Zusammenfassung
Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2019; Joint winner of the 2018 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of Maps

  • Introduction

  • Part I: To War 1914

  • 1: Rupprecht's Road to War

  • 2: The Battle of the Frontiers

  • 3: The End of the Campaign in Lorraine

  • 4: The First Battle of the Somme

  • 5: To Ypres

  • Part II: The Anvil 1915-16

  • 6: A Difficult Winter

  • 7: A Successful Spring

  • 8: Further Victories

  • 9: Verdun and the Road to the Somme

  • 10: Early Days on the Somme

  • 11: Rupprecht the General

  • Part III: Holding the Line 1916-17

  • 12: Rupprecht takes Command

  • 13: Autumn on the Somme

  • 14: Scorched Earth

  • 15: The Battle of Arras

  • 16: The Battle for Flanders: Summer 1917

  • 17: The Battle for Flanders: to Passchendaele

  • 18: Cambrai

  • Part IV: Year of Defeats 1918

  • 19: Planning the Spring Offensives

  • 20: Operation MICHAEL

  • 21: Operation GEORGETTE and Summer 1918

  • 22: The Hundred Days

  • 23: Rupprecht on the Run

  • Part V: Conclusions

  • 24: Rupprecht the Field Marshal

  • 25: Rupprecht and Politics

  • 26: Last Words

  • Appendix: Note on Military Terminology

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199670468
ISBN-10: 0199670463
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Boff, Jonathan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 156 x 43 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Boff
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,651 kg
Artikel-ID: 110034240
Über den Autor
Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War and his previous book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (CUP, 2012) was short-listed for the Templer Medal and for the British Army Book of the Year award. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and the Department of War Studies, King's College London and spent twenty years working in finance before returning to academia. He serves on the councils of the National Army Museum and Army Records Society, has worked as a historical consultant with the British Army and the BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Zusammenfassung
Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2019; Joint winner of the 2018 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • List of Maps

  • Introduction

  • Part I: To War 1914

  • 1: Rupprecht's Road to War

  • 2: The Battle of the Frontiers

  • 3: The End of the Campaign in Lorraine

  • 4: The First Battle of the Somme

  • 5: To Ypres

  • Part II: The Anvil 1915-16

  • 6: A Difficult Winter

  • 7: A Successful Spring

  • 8: Further Victories

  • 9: Verdun and the Road to the Somme

  • 10: Early Days on the Somme

  • 11: Rupprecht the General

  • Part III: Holding the Line 1916-17

  • 12: Rupprecht takes Command

  • 13: Autumn on the Somme

  • 14: Scorched Earth

  • 15: The Battle of Arras

  • 16: The Battle for Flanders: Summer 1917

  • 17: The Battle for Flanders: to Passchendaele

  • 18: Cambrai

  • Part IV: Year of Defeats 1918

  • 19: Planning the Spring Offensives

  • 20: Operation MICHAEL

  • 21: Operation GEORGETTE and Summer 1918

  • 22: The Hundred Days

  • 23: Rupprecht on the Run

  • Part V: Conclusions

  • 24: Rupprecht the Field Marshal

  • 25: Rupprecht and Politics

  • 26: Last Words

  • Appendix: Note on Military Terminology

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199670468
ISBN-10: 0199670463
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Boff, Jonathan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 156 x 43 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Boff
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,651 kg
Artikel-ID: 110034240
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