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Battleground Europe
MONS
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MONS
JACK HORSFALL
&
NIGEL CAVE
Series editor
Nigel Cave
LEO COOPER
First published in 2000 by
LEO COOPER
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Limited
47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2AS
Copyright Jack Horsfall & Nigel Cave, 2000
ISBN 0 85052 677 9
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CONTENTS
Kaiser Wilhelm and the Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Helmut von Moltke (foreground) at manoeuvres in 1909.
Mons is one of those battles of the First World War that has a resonance as great as the Somme and Passchendaele for most people in Britain. They might not know anything more than the name, but it is a name that has stuck in the national subconscious.
Surprisingly enough, there is hardly anything written on the battle as such; there are excellent books on the campaign of 1914, but nothing in great detail on the fighting that took place on 23 and 24 August in this area of Belgium nestled up against the French border. Indeed there was no guide book of any great note until Michael Gavaghans Mons 1914 appeared a year or so ago.
This book is chiefly the result of the labour of Jack Horsfall who completed it some considerable time ago; it has been a long time in the editing. It is a fascinating read, opening up the battle and the achievement of the men of II Corps. These men were holding great lengths of front well over a thousand yards per battalion was quite common against a vastly superior army in numbers, an army that was at least as well equipped and, in the case of artillery, far better off in numbers and variety of gun. Then, as now, Mons was an industrialised town, heavily dependent on mining and related activities, and was built up and dominated (then more than now) by slag heaps in the surrounding countryside.
The narrative takes the reader through the narrow streets of Mons and out into the countryside of the Borinage. The one great change in the topography has been the disappearance of the Cond Canal, overwhelmed by the transport of the late twentieth century, the car, the truck and the ubiquitous autoroute.
The tours are complex and do require two people in the car to follow easily; this is inevitable in such a built up area and in following a story which covers a wide area and involving so many important small unit actions. This is a key to understanding the military events of 1914 from the British perspective. It is not the story of great masses of men engaged in enormous conflagration, such as the Somme. Rather the Retreat and later battles of 1914, such as Le Cateau, the Aisne and above all First Ypres, are often dominated by the actions of individual battalions, squadrons and batteries. Their stories are often very well written up. This combination of factors makes for an unusual guide.
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