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On 26 September 1915 twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men - were ordered to attack German positions at Loos in north-east France. In the three-and-a-half hours of the actual battle, they sustained 8,246 casualties. The Germans suffered no casualties at all. The Donkeys is a study of the Western Front on 1915, a brilliant expose of a key stage of the Great War, when the opposing armies were locked in trench warfare. Alan Clark scrutinizes the major battles of the year. He casts a steady and revealing light on those in High Command - French, Rawlinson, Watson and Haig among them - whose orders resulted in the virtual destruction of the old professional British Army.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Donkeys
• Author: Alan Clark
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780712650359
• ISBN: 0712650350
• ID: 04117381
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 136 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. December 1991

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