商品簡介
Early in 1917 Allied leaders planned a series of offensives that were to take place as part of a program of intensive operations along the Western Front. These included those at Vimy Ridge, Arras, the Aisne, Messines and Cambrai, culminating in the brutal combat on the sodden fields of Passchendaele. 1917: The Year of Offensives will examine each of these in turn, also focusing on wider themes such as the changing nature of generalship on the Western Front, the efforts of the Allies to develop and use new tactics and technology and the strain that these offensives put on the Allied armies and generals, as well as political leaders, with unrest on the Home Front growing by the day. With revolution tearing Russia apart and mutiny brewing in the ranks of the French army, these offensives, that were designed to take Germany out of the war, came near to destroying the Allies' capacity to fight it.
作者簡介
Dr David Murphy was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a graduate of both University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He is a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, and has published numerous articles, as well as three books with Osprey. He is currently compiling a gazetteer of Irish regiments for the Military Heritage Trust of Ireland.