The European War Vol 3 PDF Download

Excerpt from The European War, Vol. 3: September 1915 March 1916 The second attack, near Armentieres, opened at about half past four in the morning and, after lasting until three o'clock in the afternoon, also resulted in the British, after an initial advance, finding themselves obliged to retire to the point from whence they had started. The attack near Neuve Chapelle had little better luck; a German trench or two were won, but no important prog ress was made. While the attack near Givenchy made almost no progress and need not be given further atten tion. Of course it should be said that none of these attacks were really expected to gain ground. Their object was to confuse the German commanders as to the point at which the real attack should be launched, and thus prevent them to as large an extent as possible from concentrating the strength of their reserve forces at any one point. This expectation of the British, however, was only met in part, since in spite of the rather naive men tality with which the British commanders credit their German opponents, in this war, at least, they have not been able at any time to mystify them completely, and on this occasion the British commanders did undoubtedly have, to some extent, the effect Which they desired, and induced the German commanders to scatter a portion of their reserves; yet enough remained concentrated and mobile to be of paramount importance in the subsequent battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.