BOURLON WOOD(Battleground Europe): Hindenburg Line

Jack Horsfall & Nigel Cave

ISBN 10: 0097808512 / ISBN 13: 9780097808512

Beschreibung

Paperback 160 pagesPublished Price £9.95 Bourlon Wood is an isolated piece of forest near Cambrai in eastern France. It was the scene of severe fighting in 1917 involving the Canadians. This book concentrates on the dramatic events following the battle of the Somme, when the Germans made a strategic withdrawal, shortening their lines and falling back on the prepared defences of the Hindenburg Line. leaving a wasteland of vacated towns, poisoned wells, felled trees, blown up buildings and booby traps in the territory they had evacuated. Bourlon Wood found itself in the front line with fighting concentrated on a bloody ravine.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: BOURLON WOOD(Battleground Europe): Hindenburg Line
• ISBN-10: 0097808512
• ISBN-13: 9780097808512
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • History
  • Military History

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If you do voluntary work in a parish, if you are a priest, a seminarian or a parish employee - or if you are thinking about working in a parish - this book will help you understand how Catholic parishes work, how parish life is organised and what it's like to work in them. How to Survive Working in a Catholic Parish is a practical and user-friendly guide to surviving (and thriving) in a Catholic parish.

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Mark Bray is Director of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris. Prior to taking this post in 2006, he worked for 20 years at the University of Hong Kong where, among other roles, he was Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre. He has also taught in secondary schools in Kenya and Nigeria, and at the Universities of Edinburgh, Papua New Guinea and London. He is widely known for his work on planning and financing of education systems, and has undertaken consultancy work in over 60 countries of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the South Pacific.