Jerry Murland: 18 books
The BEF Campaign on the Aisne 1914
'In the Company of Ghosts'
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The river Aisne featured prominently in August 1914 during the Retreat from Mons and in September was the scene of bitter fighting when the BEF re-crossed it in their unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the German Army entrenched along the Northern Crest.
The fighting was hugely costly to the...
The Battles of French Flanders
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos and Fromelles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914 and those that followed in 1916 which culminated in the Battle of the Somme. But the fighting at Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Neuve...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South
The Western Front by Car, by bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
The Retreat from Mons 1914: South is the second volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series to cover the opening campaign of the Great War. It is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of...
Retreat and Rearguard- Somme 1918
The Fifth Army Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The German Spring offensive or Kaiserschlacht was a period of great danger for the Allies. Both sides were exhausted after years of bitter fighting and huge losses. While eventually catastrophically unsuccessful and the prelude to their final defeat, the Germans forced the Allies back over hard-won...
The Retreat from Mons 1914: North
Casteau to Le Cateau, The Western Front by Car by Bike and on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Mons to the Marne, the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor who is keen to retrace the path taken by the British Expeditionary Force immediately after the outbreak of the First...
The Battles of Arras: North
A Visitor's Guide; Vimy Ridge to Oppy Wood and Gavrelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The First World War battlefields to the north of Arras – including Vimy Ridge – are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivaled only by those around Ypres and the Somme, and this clearly written, highly illustrated guide is the ideal introduction to them.
Visitors...
by Jerry Murland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of the Marne, which took place further south as the huge conscript armies of France and Germany jostled for position almost within sight of Paris. By the time the British...
Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940
The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.
This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk,...
Aristocrats Go to War
Uncovering the Zillebeke Cemetery
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Zillebeke’s small churchyard military cemetery provides the inspiration for this charming piece of military and social history. The author has researched into the exploits and backgrounds of 27 fallen soldiers, the majority being officers of the Guards and Cavalry, as well as ‘other ranks’ and...
Retreat and Rearguard 1914
The BEF’s Actions From Mons to the Marne
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The British action at Mons on 23 August 1914 was the catalyst for what became a full blown retreat over 200 blood drenched miles. This book examines eighteen of the desperate rearguard actions that occurred during the twelve days of this near rout. While those at Le Cateau and Nery are well chronicled,...
The First Day of the Somme
Gommecourt to Maricourt, 1 July 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. But no previous guide has concentrated on t
Cassel and Hazebrouck 1940
France and Flanders Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor. By 25 May the decision to evacuate the BEF via Dunkirk had already been taken, Lord Gort, commanding the BEF in France, had...
The Canal Line
France and Flanders Campaign 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, Béthune and La Bassée, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called Dunkerque Corridor designed by Lord Gort to provide...
Retreat of I Corps 1914
Early Battles 1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
On 23 August 1914 it was only the two divisions of General Smith-Dorrien's II Corps that were directly engaged with the German First Army along the line of the Mons-Conde Canal. As the British Expeditionary Force withdrew from Mons and bivouacked around Bavay on 25 August, Sir John French and his...
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