Salient Points Three: Flanders and Picardy, 1914-1918Leo Cooper, 2000 - 150 sider The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features: - A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the 'Ard 'Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael O'Leary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill 60); - Tanks at St. Julien; - Corporal McBride and the 2nd Worcesters at Neuve Eglise; - Triumph and Tragedy (The 6th DCLI at Sanctuary/Zouave woods 1915) and The Five Forgotten Mines of Messines (unexploded - and four of them still there, the other 'blew' in 1955) |
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Salient Points Three: Flanders and Picardy, 1914-1918 Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2001 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
1st Battalion 4th Battalion Adolf Hitler April Army attack awarded Battalion Headquarters Battle of Pilckem battlefield Belgium Birdcage Boesinghe bombardment Brigade British Buffs buried canal Captain Lilly Captain Ransome Carlos casualties Cemetery Cockcroft Company Corporal McBride counter-attack Division Dorsets Dorsetshire Regiment dugouts enemy fighting fire Flanders France front line graves Grenadiers Grenfell Gun Pit heavy Hill 60 Hillock Farm Hitler Hooge Crater Hospice House Houthulst Irish Guards Jack Pixley Julian Julian Grenfell June killed in action Larch Wood later Lieutenant-Colonel machine guns Mairie Major Cowie Menin Road Messines Michael O'Leary Military Cross Mont du Hibou moved Neuve Eglise October Pelerin platoon Ploegsteert Wood Poelcappelle position railway redoubts Ridge Rifle Royal Second Lieutenant sector Sergeant shell Shephard soldier Somme Spoil Bank strongpoint tank Taplow Court Ted Smith took troops Victoria Cross village Western Front whilst Worcesters wounded yards Zillebeke Zonnebeke Zouave Wood