1918: Winning the War, Losing the War

1918: Winning the War, Losing the WarDescription by Matthias Strohn Hardcover In 2018, the world will be commemorating the centenary of World War I. In many ways, 1918 was the most dramatic year of the conflict. After the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Germans were able to concentrate their forces on the Western Front for the first time in the war, and the German offensives launched from March 1918 onward brought the Western Allies close to defeat. Having stopped the German offensives,

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the book illustrates the Great War’s historical background and documents the increasing sophistication of aviation technology and warfare

they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen

Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days

It also includes a series of controversial conclusions on the conduct of the campaign and the casualties

Representing a fourth generation of writers on the Great War and a transnational rather than an international approach

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and unwillingness to recognize the gravity of the situation essentially turned likely failure into complete disaster

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