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Title: The Opening Shots
Author: Max Arthur
Narrator: Richard Bebb
Format: Abridged
Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-02-05
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Summary:
In the face of the relentless German advance into Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force was engaged in the costly retreat from Mons. The German Army soon took Antwerp, and only the 'miracle of the Marne' stopped them from marching into Paris. The First Battle of Ypres prevented the Germans from reaching the coast, but both sides dug in and the wretched system of trench warfare was established.
Following the extraordinary Christmas truce, ferocious fighting restarted over the snow covered battlefields, and casualties on both sides were heavy. In the late spring of 1915 the second Battle of Ypres took place and the Germans used poison gas for the first time. The toll in killed and wounded was disastrous, the British alone losing 50,000 men; but the Allies finally managed to halt the enemy advance.
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