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The Road Past Monchy

Name: The Road Past Monchy
Brand: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780253068606
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780253068606

Fighting the First World War at Arras, 1914-1918

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By Terence Loveridge
Imprint: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: June 3, 2024
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 730 g
Pages: 444

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The Road Past Monchy offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western front during World War I. The story of the Great War is usually one of condemnation or rehabilitation of strategists and consecration of the common soldier, while the story of those who planned, directed, and led operations on the ground has generally been overlooked. The Road Past Monchy uses experiences of junior leaders fighting around the key terrain of Monchy-le-Preux to challenge the currently accepted views and reveal that the Great War, despite subsequent impression, was a surprisingly dynamic effort conducted in an arena of constantly evolving practices, techniques, and technology. Less well known than its contemporary campaigns at the Somme, Verdun, or Passchendaele, Monchy also carries less preconceived baggage and thus offers a prime opportunity to reevaluate the accepted wisdom of the events, personalities, and understandings of the Great War. The Road Past Monchy offers readers a unique chance to uncover the "lost" perspective of junior war leaders in a theater of war that saw almost continuous operations from 1914 through to 1918.

Terry Loveridge is a retired professional soldier, who make his home in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His 40 years in uniform included service as an infantry officer; Chief Instructor of the Canadian Army Tactics School; Strategic Concepts Officer at NATO Headquarters, Virginia; Assistant Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada; and Visiting Defense Fellow at Queen's University, Kingston. He has served in most of the "intervening levels" of the military and has the scars and bruises to prove it.

Preface Acknowledgements Author's Note Dramatis Personae Maps Introduction Act I: Maneuver 1. Demolish All Creation, 1914 2. Handfuls of Straw, 1915 Act II: Wearing-Out Battle 3. The Amateurs, January-July 1916 4. Recalibration, November-December: 1916 5. The Right Way, January-February 1917 6. Preparing the Men, March, 1917 7. Preparing the Field, 1-7 April 1917 8. Easter, 1917 9. Damned Hard Luck, 10-11 April 1917 10. A Strange and Tragic Drama, 11-12 April 1917 11. Topsail, 13-14 April 1917 12. Worse Exists, 16 April-31 December 1917 Act III: Climax 13. Grognards, 21 March-18 Jul 1918 14. War Become Eternal, 21-25 August 1918 15. Something Great and Terrible, 26 August 1918 16. What Can Be Accomplished, 27-28 August 1918 17. After Appendix: Military Structures Notes Bibliography

"Focusing on just one part of the 'Old Front Line' near Arras, The Road Past Monchy is a remarkable and moving story of one small place and all the men and women that passed through it over the course of four terrible years."-Nick Lloyd, King's College London, author of Passchendaele: A New History "The typical view of World War I on the Western Front is one of loyal and long-suffering soldiers, callous, uncaring generals and fiendishly effective defensive weapons such as the machine gun and poison gas. InThe Road Past Monchy, Loveridge takes a relatively unstudied portion of the front line and argues the conduct of soldiers and leaders was much more dynamic than the accepted wisdom."-Warfare History Network

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