Military - Strategy, Great Britain - Army, Western Front - World War I, General & Miscellaneous Armed Forces, Individual Campaigns - World War I, Leadership, British History - Military History
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Overview
On 26 September 1915 twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men - were ordered to attack German positions at Loos in north-east France. In the three-and-a-half hours of the actual battle, they sustained 8,246 casualties. The Germans suffered no casualties at all.The Donkeys is a study of the Western Front on 1915, a brilliant exposé of a key stage of the Great War, when the opposing armies were locked in trench warfare. Alan Clark scrutinizes the major battles of the year. He casts a steady and revealing light on those in High Command - French, Rawlinson, Watson and Haig among them- whose orders resulted in the virtual destruction of the odd professional British Army.
Book Details
Published
September 30, 2011
Publisher
Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
ISBN
9781448104024