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Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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anshad been seriously shaken. They had been driven backupon their improvised fourth line. Their defensive systemworn thin by constant abrasion threatened to give way atany time. But at this propitious moment the radiant Alliedprospects vanished in a long period of bad weather. Theoperations were impeded and the replenishment of am-munition and supplies was rendered very difficult acrossthe desolate zone behind the Allied front, where the roadshad been worn out by incessant traffic. With the loss of the chief elements of their third posi-tion the Germans had fallen back on the fourth which laybehind the spurs debouching from the Thiepval-Morvalridge and thus were screened from direct observation. Theimmediate task of the Fourth British Army was to gainpossession of the commanding spurs which were held bystrongly fortified German outposts, that of the Fifth Army,to master the rest of the high ground in the vicinity ofThiepval. But the offensive lapsed into partial intermit-tent efforts.
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