Breaking the Hindenburg Line: The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Breaking the Hindenburg Line: The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division<br><br>Major priestley''s book is not intended as an official record; nevertheless it affords a graphic and accurate account of what took place on a small but decisive sector of the Western front during the Battles of the Hundred Days.<br><br>It was my good fortune to take over command of the North Midland Division at a critical moment of its career and just before we marched south to join General Sir H. Rawlinson''s Fourth Army. To my predecessor major-general W. Thwaites must be ascribed the credit of having organized and trained the Division into a fighting machine in which every officer and man was imbued with a real soldier''s spirit.<br><br>It is to this fixed determination to win through at all costs regardless of incidents on ?ank and in rear that I mainly attribute the successes won by the Division.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.