Ypres: The First Battle 1914

by Ian Beckett

Overview

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett draws on a wide range of sources never previously used to reappraise the conduct of the battle, its significance and its legacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317865339
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor Ian Beckett is an internationally known specialist on the Great War, his publications including acclaimed titles such as The Great War, 1914-1918 (2001), The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2003) and (co-edited with Keith Simpson) A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (1985). Ian Beckett is Professor History at the Universityof Northampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Chairman of the Army Records Society.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Maps

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Belgian option and the race to the sea

2. Four armies in Flanders Fields

3. Advance to contact

4. Kindermord

5. The South

6. Army Group Fabeck

7. Nonnebosschen

Conclusion: The immortal salient

Appendix: Orders of battle

Bibliography

Index