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Forgotten Voices of the Great War - The Struggle to Victory August 1917 - November 1918 written by Max Arthur performed by Richard Bebb and Various WWI Survivors on Audio CD (Abridged)

Forgotten Voices of the Great War - The Struggle to Victory August 1917 - November 1918 written by Max Arthur performed by Richard Bebb and Various WWI Survivors on Audio CD (Abridged)£19.99

The horrific third battle of Ypres finally ended at Passchendale on November 10th 1917. Ten days later, at Cambrai, the British launched the first massed tank assault in history. But they faced determined German resistance and within 3 days only 92 tanks out of the original 378 remained operational. After facing a savage counter-attack by the Germans using aircraft, gas and storm troops the British fell back to form...

Forgotten Voices of the Great War - The Opening Shots August 1914 - April 1915 written by Max Arthur performed by Soldiers from the Great War and Richard Bebb on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN:  9781856868006
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  War
Duration:  150 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Max Arthur
Performer 1:  Soldiers from the Great War
Performer 2:  Richard Bebb
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During the warm mid summer of 1914 few people suspected that, by August, Europe would be plunged into the bloodiest conflict known to mankind. Patriotic fervour - often misplaced -swept through the participating countries, but the troops dispatched to the battle fronts soon realised that the popular...

view: "it will all be over by Christmas", was just an optimistic dream. In the face of the relentless German advance into Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force was engaged in the costly retreat from Mons.

The German Army soon took Antwerp, and only the "miracle of the Marne" stopped them from marching into Paris. The First Battle of Ypres prevented the Germans from reaching the coast, but both sides dug in and the wretched system of trench warfare was established.

Following the extraordinary Christmas truce, ferocious fighting restarted over the snow covered battlefields, and casualties on both sides were heavy. In the late spring of 1915 the second Battle of Ypres took place and the Germans used poison gas for the first time.

The toll in killed and wounded was disastrous, the British alone losing 50,000 men; but the Allies finally, managed to halt the enemy advance.

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