Title

A Brilliant French Attack on the German Position in the Argonne', (1919).

Caption

'A Brilliant French Attack on the German Position in the Argonne', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'The German guns stationed on the Argonne heights were pouring a murderous cannonade of bursting shell into the French trenches, and, despite drenching rain...the French infantry advanced stealthily up towards the German batteries and engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand conflict, in which the Germans were defeated...the heavy German guns sank to their axles and had to be abandoned...' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]

Date

1919

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F14_366

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,2Mb (2,6Mb) / 19,0in x 12,3in / 5700 x 3694 (300dpi)

Keywords

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