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... Windmill Country of North France and Belgium. The Nature of the Battle of the Somme near Albert in North France The above view was taken from the German lines during the fighting on the River Somme. The three villages mentioned Montauban, Thiepoal, and Maricourt ...
... London after the Push At the hospital where the above view was taken some 300 r slightly wounded soldiers back from the battles near the Somme are being tended. This hospital has its roof covered with a L. little colony of houses where the men can benefit by ...
... 8vo. 61- net. Also a limited edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the Author. Important Forthcoming Books THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME By PHILLIP GIBBS. Author of The Soul of the War. Cr. 8vo. 6s. net. PICTURES OF WAR WORK By JOSEPH PENNELL. A series ...
... Hewlett. Demy Svo. 6/- net. Mr. Galsworthy's New Volume. A SHEAF: Essays. By John Galsworthy. Cr. 8vo. 51- net. The BATTLES of the SOMME. By Philip Gibbs, Author of The Soul of the War. Cr. 8vo. 6/- net. BOCHE LAND: Just Before and During the War. Bv ...
... directions of the French and British offensive during the battle of the Somme. The British and French lines on July 1 touched each other close to Maricourt, about two miles north of the loop of the Somme between Hem and Frise. The British drove their attack ...
... Germans. It was the fruits of the Battle of the Somme and of the spear-thrust up the valley of the Ancre. The German fortress-lines which had occupied years in the making were battered through in that long-drawn series of battles, and, as we long ago observed ...
... the German High Command endeavoured to shelter its infantry from the fire of the dominant Allied artillery during the battle of the Somme. The accompanying views show the active side of their defensive measures as opposed to the passivity implied by burrow ...
... has been fierce and stubborn, rather resembling the long drawn-out struggle which took place round Combles during the Battle of the Somme. Bullecourt occupies a fairly strong position from the military standpoint, lying on one of several low ridges which ...
... of Peronne. It lay just behind that part of the German lines which was opposed to General Fayolle's army during the Battle of the Somme, and suffered terribly in the fierce fighting which took place south of Peronne. In the spring of 1917, 1C retreating ...
... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is fifteen times less than it was in the Battle of the Somme, with the result that Sir Douglas Haig the other day paid a high tribute to the quality of the ammunition. We have ...
... the Germans. This superiority explains their success in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans understand this as well as the Allies. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his recently-published Battles of the Somme, prints a technical report on these operations made by General ...
... wrong to think that we have hitherto had no means at all of carrying aerial warfare into their country. Ever since the Battle of the Somme we have had a clear military supremacy in the air, and in a small way could have followed them up, but we felt that ...