Death of a division
Martin, David E. (World War One researcher)2018
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Total copies: 1
The war had dragged on towards its fourth year. There seemed little prospect of any immediate end to the ceaseless slaughter. Field Marshal Haig saw the war as a continual battle of attrition until the Germans were finally battered into submission. In Germany the economic blockade that had been imposed upon it, enforced by the Royal Navy, was slowly strangling the country. The Kaiser and his generals knew that the longer the war dragged on the greater was the prospect of an Allied victory. At 09.35 hours on Thursday, 21 March 1918, one million German soldiers left their trenches to attack the British Expeditionary Force along a front of nearly 50 miles. It was Germany's last major effort to win the war, and it very nearly succeeded. Facing the onslaught from more than 40 German divisions stood just a dozen British divisions.
Main title:
Death of a division / David Martin.
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Imprint:
London : Frontline Books, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume
ISBN:
9781473844728 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.434
Language:
English
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BRN:
2625898