Battle of Arras (1917) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 26/06/2019

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00:02:48 1 Background
00:04:01 1.1 Political background
00:05:24 1.2 Strategy
00:06:49 1.3 Tactics: British Expeditionary Force
00:07:44 1.3.1 Division attack training
00:09:26 1.3.2 Platoon attack training
00:12:01 1.4 Tactics: German army
00:16:06 1.4.1 German 6th Army
00:20:25 2 Prelude
00:20:33 2.1 British preparations
00:20:43 2.1.1 Underground
00:24:58 2.1.2 War in the air
00:26:43 2.2 Artillery
00:29:07 2.2.1 Tanks
00:30:09 3 Battle
00:30:18 3.1 First phase
00:32:42 3.1.1 First Battle of the Scarpe (9–14 April 1917)
00:34:48 3.1.2 Battle of Vimy Ridge (9–12 April 1917)
00:36:10 3.2 Second phase
00:39:41 3.2.1 Second Battle of the Scarpe (23–24 April 1917)
00:41:24 3.2.2 Battle of Arleux (28–29 April 1917)
00:42:54 3.2.3 Third Battle of the Scarpe (3–4 May 1917)
00:44:01 4 Flanking operations
00:44:11 4.1 Round Bullecourt, 11 April – 16 June
00:44:23 4.1.1 First attack on Bullecourt (10–11 April 1917)
00:46:11 4.1.2 German attack on Lagnicourt (15 April 1917)
00:47:26 4.1.3 Battle of Bullecourt (3–17 May 1917)
00:48:55 5 Aftermath
00:49:04 5.1 Analysis
00:50:31 5.2 Awards
00:50:59 5.3 Casualties
00:52:37 5.4 Commanders
00:54:23 5.5 War poetry and music



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The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare had begun, surpassing the record set by the French Sixth Army on 1 July 1916. The British advance slowed in the next few days and the German defence recovered. The battle became a costly stalemate for both sides and by the end of the battle, the British Third and First Army had suffered about 160,000 and the German  6th Army about 125,000 casualties.
For much of the war, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at stalemate, with a continuous line of trenches from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective from early 1915 was to break through the German defences into the open ground beyond and engage the numerically inferior German Army (Westheer) in a war of movement. The British attack at Arras was part of the French Nivelle Offensive, the main part of which was the Second Battle of the Aisne 50 miles (80 km) to the south. The aim of the French offensive was to break through the German defences in forty-eight hours. At Arras the Canadians were to re-capture Vimy Ridge, dominating the Douai Plain to the east, advance towards Cambrai and divert German reserves from the French front.The British effort was an assault on a relatively broad front between Vimy in the north-west and Bullecourt to the south-east. After a long preparatory bombardment, the Canadian Corps of the First Army in the north fought the Battle of Vimy Ridge and took the ridge. The Third Army in the centre advanced astride the Scarpe River and in the south, the British Fifth Army attacked the Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung) but made few gains. The British armies then engaged in a series of small operations to consolidate the new positions. Although these battles were generally successful in achieving limited aims, they came at considerable cost.When the battle officially ended on 16 May, the British had made significant advances but had been unable to achieve a breakthrough. New tactics and the equipment to exploit them had been used, showing that the British had absorbed the lessons of the Battle of the Somme and could mount set-piece attacks against fortified field defences. After the Second Battle of Bullecourt (3–17 May), the Arras sector became a quiet front, that typified most of the war in  ...