Ww1 Press Pack Final Small 4.Pdf
*6%2')'311)136%8)7 8,) +6)%8 ;%6 CONTENTS Introduction 7 1 Major Events commemorating the Great War 8 2 New for 2014: Site openings and renovations 15 3 Paris, gateway into France 17 4 Remembrance Trails 19 Nord-Pas de Calais 20 Somme: circuit of remembrance 24 Aisne 1914-1918 27 Champagne-Ardenne 31 Lorraine: Verdun, epicentre of Lorraine Battles of 3 Frontiers 35 The Great War on the Vosges Front 38 5 Appendices Atout France, France tourism development agency 42 The Centenary Mission 42 Photo Credits 43 UK INTRODUCTION From August 1914 to November 1918, France was the stage for the most violent and deadly war that history has ever known. For 5 years, from the North Sea to the Swiss border, with a front line of almost 1,000 kilometres, millions of men from France, Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, America, Russia, India and Senegal, and right across the five continents, armed with the most modern and powerful weapons of the day, fought one another on almost a daily basis. Their battles and their deaths stained French soil and seared the memory of the world but have also inspired contemporary hopes of international peace. The British troops landed in France in August 1914 and endured tough battles against the German army in Mons, Aisne, Artois, and French Flanders. With the approach of winter, both sides were forced to halt the manoeuvre warfare, exhausted by these early battles. The men dug trenches wherever they were. The British Empire troops thus occupied the northern part of the front, from the North Sea to the Somme, and held it until 1918.
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