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Last stand at Zandvoore 1914 : Lord Hugh Grosvenor's noble sacrifice /
- Title
- Last stand at Zandvoore 1914 : Lord Hugh Grosvenor's noble sacrifice / Mike McBride.
- Author
- McBride, Mike, 1960-
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2016.
- ©2016
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- Description
- xii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Being the son of the Duke of Westminster, whose family traces in lineage 1066, Lord Hugh Grosvenor was destined to become a cavalry officer in the prestigious 1st Regiment of Life Guards. ... [This book] describes Lord Hugh's embarkation for France and the early mounted encounters, which halted the enemy onslaught against the 'contemptible little army.' These led to the stalemate of trench warfare and found Lord Hugh and his Squadron holding out at Zandvoorde during the First Battle of Ypres 1914 and being annihilaited by superior numbers of enemy forces in some of the most desperate fighting of the First World War. Due to the advances in military hardware, the war for Lord Hugh and his comrades marked a turning point in cavalry tactics."--Book jacket.
- Subjects
- Great Britain > Army > Life Guards, 1st
- World War, 1914-1918 > Cavalry operations
- World War (1914-1918)
- Ypres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914
- History
- Ypres, 1st Battle of (Ieper, Belgium : 1914)
- Great Britain > Army > Life Guards, 1st > History
- 1914-1918
- Military operations, Cavalry
- Belgium > Ieper
- Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, Duke of, 1879-1953
- Grosvenor, Hugh William, Lord, 1884-1914
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-228) and index.
- ISBN
- 1473891574
- 9781473891579
- LCCN
- 2017304509
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library