How far to sources G and H agree about the chances of success for the British attack at Ypres in 1917? Explain your answers.

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How far to sources G and H agree about the chances of success for the British attack at Ypres in 1917? Explain your answers.

 As you can see both of the sources have agreed and disagreed in many aspects. They tend to agree on the small matters and disagree on the major points and opinions. I am going to analyse the sources and then write about all of the points in which they agree and disagree.

Gough’s account talks about the torrential rain that fell before, during and after the battle took place.

“The number of tanks… were rendered almost powerless by the heavy and continuous rain.”

He then goes on to tell us about the adverse conditions that his soldiers had to work in, and about the difficult job his soldiers were going to have getting past the fire of the pill boxes which where not accounted for because intelligence didn’t manage to pick them up. Near the end of the first paragraph you can see that he realises that Victory is inevitable and that unless they took a very high casualty rate.

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“By the 16th of August I informed Haig that tactical success was no longer possible with the forces at my disposal, except with very heavy losses”.

Then on to the second paragraph he tells us that even though Haig knew about this factor he still went on fighting and he did this for another three and a half months before the bloody struggle finished. And even though the battle went on for so long they still managed to achieve there primary objective, which was to Protect Petain and his French army from any serious attacks.

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