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Passchendaele

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by Paul Ham


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  Pirscher, Friedrich von, Das (rheinisch-westfaelische) Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 459 [(Rhineland-Westphalian) Infantry Regiment no. 459], Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, 1926

  Pois, Robert and Langer, Philip, Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2004

  Pope, Alexander, An Essay on Man in Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, Mirick West Brookfield C.A., 1843 (electronic book)

  Powell, Geoffrey, Plumer: The Soldier’s General: A Biography of Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer of Messines, Pen & Sword Military Classics, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2004

  Prior, Robin and Wilson, Trevor, Passchendaele: The Untold Story, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Nota Bene, London, 2002

  Prost, Antoine, Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Berg, New York, 2002

  Quigley, Hugh, Passchendaele and the Somme: A Diary of 1917, Methuen & Co., London, 1928

  Reid, Richard, Ypres 1917: Australians on the Western Front, Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs, Canberra, 2008

  Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ballantine Books, New York, 1982

  Repington, Lieutenant Colonel Charles à Court, The First World War, 1914–1918, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1920

  Riddell, George Allardice Riddell, 1st Baron, Lord Riddell’s War Diary, 1914–1918, Nicholson & Watson, London, 1933

  Robbins, Simon, British Generalship on the Western Front 1914–18: Defeat into Victory, F. Cass, London, 2005

  Robertson, Field Marshal Sir William Bart, Soldiers and Statesmen, 1914–1918, Cassell, London, 1926

  Roe, F. P., Accidental Soldiers, F. P. Roe, London, 1981

  Rowland, Peter, David Lloyd George: A Biography, Macmillan, New York, 1976

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  Russell, Henry, Slaves of the War Lords, Hutchinson, London, 1928

  Sassoon, Siegfried, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, Faber, London, 1972

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  Secrett, T., Twenty-Five Years with Earl Haig, Jarrolds, London, 1929

  Sharpe, Robert J., The Last Day, The Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial, published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2009

  Sheffield, Gary, The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army, Aurum, London, 2012

  —Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914–1918, Pen & Sword Praetorian Press, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2014

  —Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities, Review, London, 2002

  Sheldon, Jack, The German Army at Passchendaele, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2007

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  Sobbe, Freiherr von, History of the Brunswick Infantry Regiment No. 92 in the World War, 1914–1918, Verlag Tradition, Wilhelm Kolk, Berlin, 1929

  Spears, Major General Sir Edward, Prelude to Victory, Jonathan Cape, London, 1939

  Staniforth, John Hamilton Maxwell, (Grayson, Richard S. – ed), At War With the 16th Irish Division 1914–1918: The Staniforth Letters, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2012

  Steel, Nigel and Hart, Peter, Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground, Cassell, London, 2001

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  Suttie, Andrew, Rewriting the First World War: Lloyd George, Politics and Strategy, 1914–1918, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005

  Terraine, John, Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier, Cassell Military Paperbacks, London, 2005

  —The Road to Passchendaele: The Flanders Offensive of 1917 – a Study in Inevitability, Leo Cooper, London, 1977

  —The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti-Myths of War, 1861–1945, Leo Cooper, London, 1992

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  Tregoning-Lawrence, Heather, and Siers, Robyn, Forever Yours: Stories of Wartime Love and Friendship, Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs in association with the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2011

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  Wadsworth, Jacqueline, Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2014

  Warner, Philip, Passchendaele: The Story Behind the Tragic Victory of 1917, Pen & Sword Military Classics, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2005

  Wade, Aubrey, The War of the Guns: Western Front, 1917 & 1918, B. T. Batsford, London, 1936

  Whitehead, Ian R., Doctors in the Great War, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2013

  Wiest, Andrew, Passchendaele and the Royal Navy, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1995

  Williams, Harold, An Anzac on the Western Front, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2012

  Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914–1918, Faber & Faber, London, 2010

  Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1998

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  Wolff, Leon, In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign, Penguin, London, 2001

  Woodward, David R., Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917–1918, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1993

  Wright, Matthew, Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the
Western Front, Penguin, Auckland, NZ, 2010

  Wynne, Graeme, If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1976

  Wyrall, Everard, The History of the Fiftieth Division: 1914–1919, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., London, 1939

  INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

  ‘100 Days’

  Abbey, Corporal James

  Abraham Heights

  Abt, Leonhard

  Adorno, Theodor

  age pension reforms

  aircraft

  Albatros series

  Fokker Eindecker

  German

  Messines, at

  Sopwith Camel

  Third Ypres, at

  Aisne

  Albert

  Albert, King

  Albrecht Stellung

  Aldington, Richard

  Algerian 45th Colonial Division

  All Quiet on the Western Front

  Allenby, General

  Allfree, Dolly

  Allfree, Lieutenant E. C.

  Allhusen, Lieutenant Desmond

  Allhusen, Rupert

  Alsace-Lorraine

  Alsop, Anne

  Alsop, Private Fred

  Altham, Tom

  Americans

  Amiens

  Anarchists

  Ancre

  Anglo-French-Italian conference (London 1917)

  Annan, Lieutenant J.

  anti-war feeling

  Germany, in

  Anzac House spur

  Anzac Ridge

  Arleux

  Armin, General Sixt von

  Arnold, Sergeant Charles

  Arras

  artillery

  heavy see heavy artillery

  medium field see medium field artillery

  statistics

  artillery barrage

  counter-bombardment

  creeping see creeping barrage

  Gheluvelt Plateau

  Messines, at

  saturation shelling

  Third Ypres, at

  Ascanius

  Asquith, Herbert

  Asquith, Raymond

  Atkins, Private Tommy see British Tommies

  Austin, Hugh

  Austin, Private Matthew H.

  Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs)

  Broodseinde

  courage, reputation for

  culture

  disciplinary issues

  Gheluvelt Plateau

  invincibility, reputation for

  morale

  Poelcappelle

  Third Ypres

  Australian Army

  1st Division

  2nd Division

  3rd Division

  4th Division

  Australian Corps

  returning soldiers

  structure

  tunnelling companies

  uniforms and equipment

  unity of command concept

  Austro-Hungarians

  war aims, changing

  Avion

  Baker-Carr, Colonel C. D.

  Balfour, Lord

  Bank Farm

  Bapaume

  Barnett, Corelli

  Barron, Corporal Colin Fraser

  Bassevillebeek

  Bastiaan, Dr Ross

  Bauer, Major Max

  Bavarians

  bayonets

  Bean, Charles

  Beauvais

  Beaverbrook, Lord

  Beckett, Ian

  Beechey, Amy

  Belgium

  German invasion

  planned liberation of

  Bell, Edward

  Bell, Major

  Bell-Irving, Major Roderick

  Bellevue Spur

  Bellewaerde Chateau

  Bellewaerde Lake

  Bellewaerde Ridge

  Benedict XV, Pope

  Bernstorff, Ambassador Count Johann von

  Berry, Sergeant T.

  Berry Farm

  Bertie, Lord

  Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobold von

  Bickersteth, Reverend Julian

  Bill

  Birch, Lieutenant General Sir Noel

  Birdwood, Major General William

  character

  Birnie, Major George Alexander

  Birr Cross Roads

  Bishop, Billy

  ‘bite and hold’

  black market

  Black Watch

  Blacker, Lieutenant Carlos Paton (‘C. P.’)

  Blade of Grass

  blame, questions of

  blockhouse fighting

  Blomfield, Sir Reginald

  ‘Bloody April’

  Blunden, Edmund

  Blutabzapfung ‘bleed France white’

  Boesinghe

  Boldt, Leutnant

  Bolsheviks

  bombs

  Mills

  P-bombs (phosphorus)

  Bonar Law, Andrew

  Bottomley, Horatio

  Boulogne

  Bowman, Private Tom

  Bradby, Private Walter James

  Braithwaite, Brigadier General ‘Bill’

  Briand, Aristide

  Bridges, General Tom

  Brigade of Guards

  Britain

  food shortages

  Labour Party

  naval blockade

  social change

  war aims, changing

  British Army

  8th Division

  16th Irish Division

  18th Division

  23rd Division

  25th Division

  33rd Division

  36th Ulster Division

  51st Highlander Division

  61st Division

  66th Division

  cultural change

  discipline

  Fifth Army

  Fourth Army

  High Command ignorance of conditions

  rations

  Second Army

  soldiers see British Tommies

  structure

  Third Army

  training

  British Commonwealth Memorial Plaque

  British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

  British Home Forces

  British shipping

  convoy system

  submarine war

  British Tommies

  class system, and

  courage

  duty, sense of

  fear

  gear

  morale

  religion

  returning soldiers

  sleep, craving for

  weaponry

  British War Propaganda Bureau

  Brittain, Nurse Vera

  Broodseinde

  Brooke, John Warwick

  Bruges

  Brusilov Offensive

  Buchan, John

  Budgeon, Colonel

  Bugden, Private Patrick

  Bulgaria

  Bullecourt

  burial of the dead

  Burman, Sergeant W. F.

  Burton, Driver L. G.

  Byng, General Julian

  Cadorna, General Luigi

  Calais

  Calais conference (1917)

  Calder, Sister J.

  Cambrai

  Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald

  Campbell, Lieutenant Patrick

  Canadian Army

  3rd Brigade

  courage, reputation for

  culture

  disciplinary issues

  invincibility, reputation for

  rations

  structure

  Third Ypres

  tunnelling companies

  unity of command concept

  Canche

  Caporetto

  Carson, Lieutenant G. M.

  Cassino

  casualties

  Aisne

  Amiens

  Arras

  Bellevue Spur

  brothers

  Bullecourt

&
nbsp; burial of the dead

  Caporetto

  civilian

  Dardanelles Campaign

  drownings

  First Ypres

  Gheluvelt Plateau

  identification of corpses

  junior officers

  London bombings

  Loos

  Messines

  missing in action

  Passchendaele, First Battle

  Passchendaele (capture of)

  planned/necessary

  Polygon Wood

  Second Ypres

  senior officers

  Somme

  Spring Offensive

  Third Ypres

  Verdun

  Vimy Ridge

  wounded, treatment of see wounded soldiers

  casualty clearing stations

  Caterpillar crater

  Cavell, Edith

  Cecil, Lord Robert

  Celtic Wood

  censorship

  letters home

  Central Powers

  Champagne

  Chantilly

  Chapman, Lieutenant Guy

  Charteris, Brigadier General John

  Chateau de Beaurepaire

  Chateau de Querrieu

  Chateau Wood

  Chavasse, Captain Noel Godfrey

  Churchill, Winston

  military service

  Clairmarais Forest

  Clapham Junction

  class system, and

  Clausewitz, Carl von

  clay-kicking

  Clayton, Chaplain Philip ‘Tubby’

  Clémenceau, Georges

  Clive, Lieutenant General Sir Sidney

  Clough, Arthur Hugh

  coal rationing

  Coldstream Guards

  collective labour law

  Collins, Lieutenant Norman

  Colvin, Second Lieutenant Hugh

  Colyer-Fergusson, Captain Thomas Riversdale

  Commonwealth war cemeteries

  Commonwealth War Graves Commission

  communications

  wireless

  communism

  Conan Doyle, Arthur

  conscientious objectors

  conscription

  Germany

  referendum

  Cooper, Private E.

  Corrigan, Gordon

  cost of war

  counter-attacks (Eingreif)

  Messines

  Passchendaele, German attempts to retake

  Third Ypres

  court martial cases

  Courtrai

  Courtrai–Roulers line

  creeping barrage

  Messines

  Third Ypres

  Crest Farm

  Curragh Incident

  Currie, Lieutenant General Sir Arthur

  background

  character

  Curzon, George (1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston)

  Cushing, Dr Harvey

  d’Alenson, Colonel

  Dardanelles Campaign

  Davids, Lieutenant Arthur Rhys

 

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