WORLD WAR 1 Aisne Arras Aubers Ridge Belleau Wood Cambrai Champagne Château Thierry Chemin des    Dames Festubert Fromelles Gallipoli Givenchy Hindenburg Line Kaiser’s Battle Le Cateau Loos Marne Meuse-Argonne Mons Neuve Chapelle ND de Lorette Passchendaele Somme St Mihiel Verdun Vimy Ridge Ypres Salient Yser   WORLD WAR 2 Arnhem Arromanches Bayeux Beaches:  GOLD  JUNO  OMAHA  SWORD  UTAH Caen Cherbourg D-Day Eindhoven Falaise Gap Grave Leopoldsburg Nijmegen Oosterbeek Pegasus Bridge Pointe du Hoc Son St Lô Zon   OTHER Bairnsfather Graves, Robert Kipling McCrae, John Owen, Wilfred Sassoon,    Siegfried

 

 

 

 

 

 

      
THE BATTLES OF THE RIVER AISNE

There were battles around the River Aisne virtually throughout the war. On 13 September 1914 the BEF, moving north from the River Marne, crossed the River Aisne in pursuit of the Germans and for two weeks both sides fought tenaciously on and around the Chemin des Dames ridge. By the end of the month stalemate had been reached and trench warfare had begun. Had the BEF been just two hours earlier at the River Aisne the outcome could have been quite different. British casualties have been estimated at some 12,000. Later in the war, in both 1917 and 1918 the Aisne once more figured prominently in the fighting in connection with the Chemin des Dames. As a result of the 1917 failures General Nivelle was replaced and the French Army  was undermined by a series of mutinies. In 1918 the extraordinary success of the Kaiser's offensive took the Germans back across the river These battles are covered in greater detail in our Western Front - South book opposite with travel directions, historical notes, tourist details and maps and photographs. There is a free battlefield map worth at least £3 with this book.

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