The British Army in World War I (2): The Western Front 1916–18 vol 2

In 1916, Britain was finally forced to introduce universal conscription to replace the terrible casualties suffered by the pre-war Regulars, the Territorials and the eager but unprepared volunteers of the 'New Armies'. In 1917 and 1918, the vastly expanded British Expeditionary Force became the most effective of all the combatant armies in France, its improved weapons and tactics forged in the furnaces of the Somme and the Ypres Salient. Shaken but resilient under Germany's last desperate offensive in spring 1918, it swept forward to final victory. This second of three titles charts its changing appearance in colourful detail. Første Verdenskrig. Beskrivelse af den britiske hær på Vestfronten 1916-18, herunder en omtale af den indførte værnepligt, hærens organisation 1916-18, infanteriets og artilleriets taktik samt en beskrivelse af de øvrige våbenarter/tjenestegrene og hærens uniformer og udrustning. De øvrige våbenarter/tjenestegrene, der beskrives er: Pansertropper, flyvetropper, rytteri, ingeniørtropper og forsyningstropper This volume covers the years of the "big pushes": the costly mistakes of the Somme in 1916, and Third Ypres - the infamous Passchendaele battle - in 1917. The author goes on to describe the successful defensive fighting against the great German offensive of spring 1918. The period from August 1914 to the end of 1916 saw the British Army grow from a peacetime establishment of barely 200,000 Regulars to a force numbered in millions.