The First Battle of Artois (17 December 1914 – 13 January 1915) was fought during the
First World War between the French and German armies on the Western Front. The battle was the first offensive move on the
Western Front by either side after the end of the
First Battle of Ypres in November 1914. The French attack failed to break the stalemate.
Background
During what became known as the
Race to the Sea the
Battle of Arras(1–4 October) had been fought, after which local operations, particularly on the Lorette Spur, continued during the First Battle of Flanders to the north.
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Further reading
Boff, J. (2018). Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Clayton, A. (2003). Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–18. London: Cassell.
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Edmonds, J. E.; Wynne, G. C. (1995) [1927]. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915: Winter 1914–15 Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.
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Hoeppner, E. (1994) [1921]. Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft: ein Rückblick auf die Entwicklung und die Leistungen unserer Heeres-Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege [Germany's War in the Air: the Development and Operations of German Military Aviation in the World War] (in German) (trans. Battery Press ed.). Leipzig: K.F. Koehler.
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Humphries, M. O.; Maker, J., eds. (2010). Germany's Western Front, 1915: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War. Vol. II. Waterloo Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
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Krause, J. (2013). Early Trench Tactics in the French Army: the Second Battle of Artois, May–June 1915 (1st ed.). Farnham: Ashgate.
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Sheldon, J. (2008). The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914–1917. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
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Sheldon, J. (2012). The German Army on the Western Front, 1915. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
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Wynne, G. C. (1976) [1939]. If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West (Greenwood Press, NY ed.). London: Faber & Faber.
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