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A Moonlight Massacre - The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917. the Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres (Paperback)
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A Moonlight Massacre - The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917. the Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres (Paperback)
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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. This volume is a necessary corrective to
previously published campaign narratives of what has become
popularly known as 'Passchendaele'. It examines the course of
events from the mid-November decision to sanction further offensive
activity in the vicinity of Passchendaele village to the barren
operational outcome that forced British GHQ to halt the attack
within ten hours of Zero. A litany of unfortunate decisions and
circumstances contributed to the profitless result. At the tactical
level, a novel hybrid set-piece attack scheme was undermined by a
fatal combination of snow-covered terrain and bright moonlight. At
the operational level, the highly unsatisfactory local situation in
the immediate aftermath of Third Ypres' post-strategic phase (26
October-10 November) appeared to offer no other alternative to
attacking from the confines of an extremely vulnerable salient.
Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the affair occurred at the
political and strategic level, where Haig's earnest advocacy for
resumption of the Flanders offensive in spring 1918 was maintained
despite obvious signs that the initiative had now passed to the
enemy and the crisis of the war was fast approaching. A Moonlight
Massacre provides an important contribution and re-interpretation
of the discussion surrounding Passchendaele, based firmly on an
extensive array of sources, many unpublished, and supported by
illustrations and maps.
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