Titlebook: Against Odds; Reflections on the E Dominick Graham Book 1999 Dominick Graham 1999 army.Europe.First World War

季雨

清晰

The Desert Campaign 1941–2rmy had been neglected and it was clear even to me, a nineteen-year-old with a short six months stint at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, that it was resigned to making bricks without straw. Dinner table conversation at home, as early as 1936, was about the dismal quality of our politicians and our unpreparedness for the inevitable war.

expeditious

性上瘾

BROTH

Battles on the Falaise Roadl when the latter was wounded by fighter planes, pressed OKW to allow him to withdraw to the Seine while he was still able. Hitler’s need to gain time for the V1 campaign to take effect was a reason for his refusal to agree on this occasion, but the decision continued his disastrous policy in Russia of never yielding ground.

Flat-Feet

War, Sir Douglas Haig‘s inability to adopt appropriate operations for his chosen strategy, or suitable tactics for the operations. Montgomery usually avoided that mistake in the Second World War. Graham draws upon his own experience of combat to help the reader make a connection between the orders

不容置疑

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04798-6he British moved north towards Ypres to block this advance and to outflank it if possible. The front stabilized in November with the Belgians on the coast, a small French army on their right and then the two British corps in front of and to the south of Ypres.

怎样才咆哮

权宜之计

旧石器时代

Necessity Knows No Lawn his left and he described how the Scottish Rifles were held up in front of it and shot to pieces. At the time he was commanding a company of the Irish Rifles, which he led into the attack with a hunting horn. A bullet passed through the horn while he was blowing it. I have it now on my mantelpiece.