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Hundred Days review Ø 103 In the late summer of 1918 after four long years of senseless stagnant fighting the Western Front erupted The bitter four month struggle that ensued known as the Hundred Days Campaign saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe In Hundred Days acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the endgame of World War I showing how the timely arrival. Concise account of the Allied campaign that brought Germany to defeat in World War I Gives an understanding of just how much the Allies learned about 20th century warfare during 1914 1918 leading to tactical innovations that finally broke the stalemate on the Western Front Only drawback is a paucity of maps

Hundred Days review Ø 103 Ms of tanks and aircraft they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion the Hindenburg Line a formidable network of dugouts barbed wire and pillboxes After a massive assault the Allies broke through racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace An epic tale ranging from the ravaged fields of Flanders to the revolutionary streets of Berlin Hundred Days recalls the bravery and sacrifice that finally silenced the guns of Europe. While there have been a veritable flood of books published on the origins of the First World War and the initial battles in Flanders and the Marne as well as long winded looks into the veracity or not of the Schleiffen Plan few books have ever been written on the final Allied offensive that broke the back of the German Army and ended the war And none that didn t focus on the entirety of the campaign as a whole not just one side or even one particular ally of one side This book a well written and excellent one fills that gap Hundred Days tells the oft neglected story of how the Allies won if not decisively the First World War defeated the German Army and drove it nearly to annihilation in a series of grinding attrition based offensives that also saw some examples of maneuver warfare towards the end Following their defeat of the Russian Empire in 1917 and yes it must be said that the answer to the rhetorically asked uestion of whether one can win a land war in Asia is yes one can the Germans did in the First World War by trouncing decisively and completely the Russian Empirethe Germans after stopping briefly by Italy to smack them upside the head nearly taking them out of the war as well in the Caporetto Battles shipped large formations of veteran and well euipped men to the Western Front What made this so harmful to the Allied cause was a multifaceted problem First off the Allies were tired exhausted and drained of morale The grinding battles of Paschendalle and the disastrous Nivelle Offensive which helped to cause a mutiny in the French Army had damaged the Allies than they had damaged the Germans and they were not prepared to face a new reinvigorated German offensive Secondly the Germans were bringing to the match new tactics tried and tested first against the Russians and then perfected against the Italians tactics that form the basis for infantry assault tactics to this day by the way and a sense of victory They believed that they could win the war and this mightily revitalized the German Army on the Western Front After all their comrades being shipped westwards had not only trounced the Italians and knocked the Russians out of the war but they had also conuered in a matter of days Romania in the first ever mechanized offensive in history Though minus armor the Germans never developed much in the way of tanks during WWIAll of this combined to make the German Army that spring a very confident and eager to display their new found skills against their tired exhausted foes And finally the Allies were desperately waiting for the arrival of the American Army The French especially were desperate for relief relief they hoped to find in the form of fresh American troops This added a sense of urgency to both sides the Allies hoping the Americans would arrive in time the Germans hoping that their coming offensive would knock one or the other of France or the British out of the war before the Yanks could show upThe ensuing German offensives called various names but most often known to history as the Kaiser offensives were initially tremendous successes The Germans broke the Western Front wide open and restored maneuver their strong suit to the war Albeit only for a brief time As bad as their blows were hurting the Allies they were taking considerable losses themselves and their High Commands insistence of adding strategic objectives as the offensive rolled on only spread out and diffused the German efforts in effect softening their blows Finally at the Second Battle of the Marne the Allies primarily the French with a large dose of American help stopped the German offensives As the Americans led the way in launching a joint Allied offensive that pushed the Germans from the environs of Paris the supreme Allied commander Ferdinand Foch could feel that victory was in the air Nick Lloyd tells the story of how the Allies battered and bruised from the series of massive German blows they had absorbed over the Spring recovered uickly and began landing knockout blows of their own The author covers all sides giving fair treatment to the French Germans and even the Americans something that should be remarked upon as he is British and most British historians tend to celebrate their own triumphs at the end while overlooking the French and American contributions and overlooking the plight of the retreating and defending Germans Starting at Amiens the Black Day of the German Army the Allies kept up a constant hammering series of offensives that slowly but surely drove the Germans back to their frontiers The British led the way with their tanks and the awesome hitting power of their Canadian and Australian Army Corps easily the baddest troops on the battlefield in 1918 The French while tired and almost used up contributed mightily regaining honor lost during the mutinies the previous year Only the Americans had a mixed report The American Army green under trained under euipped and indifferently led does not make for glorious reading during the First World War While American troops did well when under Allied command and mixed in with French or British armies as a separate unit the deficiencies of the American Army were born out in bloody tragic detail In the hellish nightmare of the Meuse Argonne Forest nearly 100000 American soldiers would be killed in action in a little under two months for little gains of lasting significance For all their faults however Lloyd shows the reader that the Americans learned from their incredibly costly mistakes rapidly at that and despite their often inept tactics they showed remarkable bravery and incredible courage in the face of certain death as they often charged in almost fanatically towards positions that the British and French would avoid By early November however the game was up for Germany Her Army was all but finished she was short on everything from ammunition to boots and especially food and medicine Morale at home was almost nonexistent and revolution was in the air Germany signed the Armistice and the First World War endedNick Lloyd shows that it was not politics but Allied arms that convinced the Germans to give up the fight Also he does a very convincing job of overturning the German myth which many there still believe that it was leftist politicians who stabbed the Army in the back The Army was done for on its last legs and even its High Command understood this The Armistice was a blessing in disguise for the German Army as it gave them the opportunity to turn home and root out the Communists However the Allies did not win decisively The German Army though in a bad way was still functional and the Allies did not occupy Germany While it seems that such a step would be overly harsh in today s overly sensitive political climate the truth is that minus that occupation is exactly what gave the conditions time to brew that allowed the rise of the National Socialists All in all an excellent book hopefully it will spawn research into this most pivotal of moments in 20th century history Carl Sandburg racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace An epic tale A Dead Man's Secret ranging from the Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting ravaged fields of Flanders to the TWO-MAN AIR FORCE: Don Gentile and John Godfrey: World War II Flying Legends (Pen & Sword Aviation) revolutionary streets of Berlin Hundred Days Curious George Neighborhood Friends recalls the bravery and sacrifice that finally silenced the guns of Europe. While there have been a veritable flood of books published on the origins of the First World War and the initial battles in Flanders and the Marne as well as long winded looks into the veracity or not of the Schleiffen Plan few books have ever been written on the final Allied offensive that broke the back of the German Army and ended the war And none that didn t focus on the entirety of the campaign as a whole not just one side or even one particular ally of one side This book a well written and excellent one fills that gap Hundred Days tells the oft neglected story of how the Allies won if not decisively the First World War defeated the German Army and drove it nearly to annihilation in a series of grinding attrition based offensives that also saw some examples of maneuver warfare towards the end Following their defeat of the Russian Empire in 1917 and yes it must be said that the answer to the Admiralty Salvage in Peace & War 1914-82: 'Grope, Grub and Tremble' rhetorically asked uestion of whether one can win a land war in Asia is yes one can the Germans did in the First World War by trouncing decisively and completely the Russian Empirethe Germans after stopping briefly by Italy to smack them upside the head nearly taking them out of the war as well in the Caporetto Battles shipped large formations of veteran and well euipped men to the Western Front What made this so harmful to the Allied cause was a multifaceted problem First off the Allies were tired exhausted and drained of morale The grinding battles of Paschendalle and the disastrous Nivelle Offensive which helped to cause a mutiny in the French Army had damaged the Allies than they had damaged the Germans and they were not prepared to face a new Run Adolf Run reinvigorated German offensive Secondly the Germans were bringing to the match new tactics tried and tested first against the Russians and then perfected against the Italians tactics that form the basis for infantry assault tactics to this day by the way and a sense of victory They believed that they could win the war and this mightily 10 revitalized the German Army on the Western Front After all their comrades being shipped westwards had not only trounced the Italians and knocked the Russians out of the war but they had also conuered in a matter of days Romania in the first ever mechanized offensive in history Though minus armor the Germans never developed much in the way of tanks during WWIAll of this combined to make the German Army that spring a very confident and eager to display their new found skills against their tired exhausted foes And finally the Allies were desperately waiting for the arrival of the American Army The French especially were desperate for Hopkins of the Mayflower: Portrait of a Dissenter relief Talking to the Sun An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People relief they hoped to find in the form of fresh American troops This added a sense of urgency to both sides the Allies hoping the Americans would arrive in time the Germans hoping that their coming offensive would knock one or the other of France or the British out of the war before the Yanks could show upThe ensuing German offensives called various names but most often known to history as the Kaiser offensives were initially tremendous successes The Germans broke the Western Front wide open and Cats of Velvet restored maneuver their strong suit to the war Albeit only for a brief time As bad as their blows were hurting the Allies they were taking considerable losses themselves and their High Commands insistence of adding strategic objectives as the offensive Hitched!: Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall rolled on only spread out and diffused the German efforts in effect softening their blows Finally at the Second Battle of the Marne the Allies primarily the French with a large dose of American help stopped the German offensives As the Americans led the way in launching a joint Allied offensive that pushed the Germans from the environs of Paris the supreme Allied commander Ferdinand Foch could feel that victory was in the air Nick Lloyd tells the story of how the Allies battered and bruised from the series of massive German blows they had absorbed over the Spring Rising Tide The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War recovered uickly and began landing knockout blows of their own The author covers all sides giving fair treatment to the French Germans and even the Americans something that should be Pocket Paper Engineer: How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step remarked upon as he is British and most British historians tend to celebrate their own triumphs at the end while overlooking the French and American contributions and overlooking the plight of the Sweet Revenge II retreating and defending Germans Starting at Amiens the Black Day of the German Army the Allies kept up a constant hammering series of offensives that slowly but surely drove the Germans back to their frontiers The British led the way with their tanks and the awesome hitting power of their Canadian and Australian Army Corps easily the baddest troops on the battlefield in 1918 The French while tired and almost used up contributed mightily Healing Cancer regaining honor lost during the mutinies the previous year Only the Americans had a mixed The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 4, Pamphlets to Shakespeare report The American Army green under trained under euipped and indifferently led does not make for glorious The Last Man on Earth reading during the First World War While American troops did well when under Allied command and mixed in with French or British armies as a separate unit the deficiencies of the American Army were born out in bloody tragic detail In the hellish nightmare of the Meuse Argonne Forest nearly 100000 American soldiers would be killed in action in a little under two months for little gains of lasting significance For all their faults however Lloyd shows the Seeing Spots reader that the Americans learned from their incredibly costly mistakes A Single Quavering Note rapidly at that and despite their often inept tactics they showed Beyond Hallowed Walls remarkable bravery and incredible courage in the face of certain death as they often charged in almost fanatically towards positions that the British and French would avoid By early November however the game was up for Germany Her Army was all but finished she was short on everything from ammunition to boots and especially food and medicine Morale at home was almost nonexistent and I Will Hold You 'til You Sleep revolution was in the air Germany signed the Armistice and the First World War endedNick Lloyd shows that it was not politics but Allied arms that convinced the Germans to give up the fight Also he does a very convincing job of overturning the German myth which many there still believe that it was leftist politicians who stabbed the Army in the back The Army was done for on its last legs and even its High Command understood this The Armistice was a blessing in disguise for the German Army as it gave them the opportunity to turn home and Iconos del misterio. 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Hundred Days review Ø 103 Of American men and materiel as well as the bravery of French British and Commonwealth soldiers helped to turn the tide on the Western Front Many of these battle hardened troops had endured years of terror in the trenches clinging to their resolve through poison gas attacks and fruitless assaults across no man's land Finally in July 1918 they and their American allies did the impossible they returned movement to the western theater Using surprise attacks innovative artillery tactics and swar. Did anyone really care whether Alsace Lorraine was French or German Using those words British history professor Nick Lloyd summed up German thoughts at the end of the Great War as the German government considered surrendering to the Allied forces in Fall 1918 in his new book Hundred DaysAugust 1914 young men from Britain to Austro Hungary marched gaily off to war They d be home by Christmas these fearless young men told themselves and each other But as the years went by with battles gaining literally inches and men living and dying in hideous trenches in France and Belgium by summer of 1918 the war was finally creaking to an end The American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side had given the French British and Dominion troops an added boost to those armies who had been fighting for three years often to a standoff with the Germans on the Western Front in a war of attritionNick LLoyd a senior lecturer of Defense Studies at Kings College London lost a great uncle at the French village of Gouzeaucourt just six weeks or so before the Armistice Lloyd has written an amazingly readable book about those last hundred days of WW1 He looks at the war from British German French and American sides and examines both the military battles at the Front and the political battles behind the scenes He includes maps at the front of the book which detail the battles fought and military lines that had to be crossed by the advancing Allies and defended by the GermansOne of the most interesting parts of the book deals with the political situation in Germany as the war caused the collapse of the Kaiser s government Lloyd looks at the cries of betrayal by the CommunistsBolshevicsJewsDefeatists that lasted well into the 1920 s and 30 s Nick LLoyd has done a wonderful job looking at a smallish slice of time in a much larger conflict Great book for WW1 history readers