Michael LoCicero

Broschiertes Buch

A Moonlight Massacre

The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917. the Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres

Beschreibung

The Third Battle of Ypres was officially terminated by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the opening of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. Nevertheless, a comparatively unknown set-piece attack - the only large-scale night operation carried out on the Flanders front during the campaign - was launched twelve days later on 2 December.

Autor

Michael Stephen LoCicero is an independent scholar who earned his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2011. Previously employed as a contracted researcher by the National Archives and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, he is currently engaged in a wide-ranging number of academic and editorial activities including MA advisement for the University of Birmingham's respected MA programme, a visiting lectureship at the University of Wolverhampton and a commissioning editorship on behalf of Helion. His chapter on Brigadier-General Edward Bulfin appeared in Spencer Jones (ed) "Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914" in 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 1144g
• ISBN-13: 9781911628729
• ISBN-10: 1911628720
• Artikelnr.: 53689516