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St Quentin (ePub)

Hindenburg Line

Military > Battlefield Guidebooks WWI > By Year > 1914 WWI > By Year > 1917 WWI > By Year > 1918

By Philip Guest, Helen McPhail
Imprint: Pen & Sword Battleground
Series: Battleground Books: WWI
File Size: 14.5 MB (.epub)
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781473818521
Published: 12th September 2000

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After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918. Many impressive individual and collective achievements, captured guns, Victoria Crosses richly earned. The ancient city itself suffered too - bombardment by French and British artillery, its citizens subjected and exploited by the occupying German forces, then evacuated ahead of the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line - before its final liberation in October 1918.
The book gives details of positions, redoubts, attacks, lines of advance and retreat, with many illustrations provided from local sources. Most of the positions described can still be traced and the sites of some epic events located.

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