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JOHN BUCHAN'S The BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... JOHN BUCHAN'S The BATTLE OF THE SOMME (Nelson's History of the WV. Vol, l 6); DESCRIBES THE SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR ARMIES IN SHATTERING THE GERMAN WESTERN LINE.: Cloth. ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1917
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 29 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE TANKS IN THE TIMES HISTORY

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE TANKS IN THE TIMES HISTORY. Part 138 (Volume Xi.) of The Time* History and Encyclopedia of the War, which will be published to-morrow, continues the story of the Battle of the Somme. - - - - The narrative opens on the eve of ...

Published: Monday 09 April 1917
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The issue of this volume is most opportune. It appears at the moment when the German retreat bears witness to

... moment when the German retreat bears witness to the force of the smashing blows delivered by the British armies in the Battle of the Somme. The story, which Mr. Buchan tells as only he can, exhibits in the most graphic fashion the step-by-step advance which ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1917
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 117 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

CORPL. PERCY C. M. REEVES,

... time his death had escaped injury. Mr, and: Mrs. Reeves’ eldest son, Seoond-Lieut. Leon Reeves, was wounded in the battle of the Somme last year. Another son is serving the Royal Fusiliers. ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1917
Newspaper: Hendon & Finchley Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NELSON'S WAR HISTORY

... NELSON'S WAR HISTORY. The story of the first four phases of the battle of the Somme is told by Mr. John Buchan in Volume 16 of Nelson:s History of the War (Is. 3d. net). It is impossible' to conceive a more lucid description of the objects, course ...

A KIND OF DIRECTORY

... Military effort in offensive battle than has ever been made by any nation at any time, in any land. But, according to Sir William Robertson, the Germans now have far larger armies in the field than before the battle of the Somme was fought. They certainly ...

Published: Sunday 22 April 1917
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 168 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

of the The Aisne front. the region of the French attack

... other parts of the front the intelligence is also good, and it is curious bow closely events are following those of the battle of the Somme, except that our initial suoreas is, of couree, much greater, vastly worse for the enemy, and Isas costly to ourselves ...

Published: Tuesday 17 April 1917
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WHAT THE SOMME PROVED

... Hindenburg over the old General Staff—valuable results, but far from decisive. In the second half of 1916, too, the battle of the Somme was fought which proved that, given time and men, we could do what the Germans could not do, and break the opposing ...

Published: Sunday 29 April 1917
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Momentous Times at Hand

... attack and defence is ample. The British Army, too, has profited bv the lessons of the two great dress rehearsals of the battle of the Somme and of the Cerman withdrawal.—Reuter. WHAT THE TURKS HAVE AWES. TAINED. Amsterd►m, Wednesday. The following official ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1917
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NELSON'S HISTORY OF THE WAR

... compact History of the War is to hand, and deals with the various phases of the Battle of the Somme in Mr. Buchan's well-known masterly and interesting fashion. Now that the Somme is left behind, and after a deadly. but victorious struggle, even the maps and ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1917
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WAR TIDE HAS TURNED-STRIKING FACTS

... eighteen days of the battle of the Somme and the , first eighteen days of this battle. In the first eighteen days of the battle of the Somme we captured 11,000 prisoners and fiftyfour guns. During the first eighteen .days of the ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1917
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 744 | Page: 2 | Tags: none