GIVENCHY IN THE GREAT WAR: A Village on the Front Line, 1914-1918

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Shows what happened at Givenchy when it became a battlefield, and the story here was repeated in the other villages and towns on the Western Front. Givenchy's key position made it the target for crushing bombardments, infantry assaults, and subterranean warfare. Mining operations, shelling, sniping, and trench raids took place around the remains of the village, even when this stretch of the front line was relatively quiet. The grueling struggle of attrition that characterized the fighting on the Western Front continued here throughout the war. Makes extensive use of war diary extracts, personal stories, official and unofficial histories.