History A-Level
Attrition and breakthrough
What Attrition and breakthrough means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Attrition and breakthrough
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Wearing down the enemy through costly advances, as at the Somme, contrasted with seeking a rapid breakthrough, as at Passchendaele.
Topics that use Attrition and breakthrough
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 4 Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914–18 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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