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Last Stand at Zandvoorde 1914: Lord Hugh Grosvenor’s Noble Sacrifice
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By Mike McBride Pen and Sword Barnsley £19.99, 234pp, ills in page throughout, bibliog, ISBN 1473891574. Review by David J Filsell Whilst there is a very strong case for a serious study of the loss of Zandvoorde on 30th October 1914, in my judgement Last stand at Zandvoorde 1914 is not it. My concerns were first triggered by the book’s foreword...
Haig’s Tower of Strength: General Sir Edward Bulfin – Irelands’ Forgotten General
By John Powell Pen and Sword, £25.00, 240pp, 33 ills, 10 maps, glossary, notes and bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–152–672–260–7 My grandfather would have called General Edward Bulfin a man with ‘ballast’; a workman, capable, unshowy and determined. Rather than earning his commission at Sandhurst, he entered the army from the militia, did not attend S...
110 years ago - 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at Gheluvelt (31st October 1914)
As is well known, after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the subsequent failure of the direct advance on Paris, the aim of the German army in 1914 had to be to outflank the French and British Armies in order to advance further into France. This was to become known, mistakenly, as the ‘race to the sea’. What became of vital importance to th...