SHORTAGE OF SHELLS; SMALL GAINS AT HEAVY COST BRITISH FIRE ON OWN TROOPS Special to The Great War Project (12-14 May) This is a particularly dismal moment – a crisis really — for the British and their allies. A century ago, on both the Western Front in France and the Turkish Front at Gallipoli, the…
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IN FRANCE BRITISH SEEK BREAKOUT AT NEUVE CHAPELLE
by Mike Shuster
Initial Success Yields to Disaster; Communications Confusion Brings Tragedy Special to The Great War Project (8-10 March) After weeks of little action on the Western Front, the British launch a major attack on the Germans at the already destroyed French village of Neuve Chapelle. The goal: to break through the German trench lines and capture…