The Hindenburg Line 1918: Haig’s forgotten triumph

The Hindenburg Line 1918: Haig’s forgotten triumphDescription By Alistair McCluskey Paperback From September 26 until October 6, 1918, the Allied armies in France, led by British army commander Sir Douglas Haig, launched their biggest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. Two million troops of the British, French, American, and Belgian Armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders. This huge assault drove the German Army

yet he was as much an innocent abroad as a killing machine

a timeline

Intimate Voices from the First World War fills in the gaps in the history of the world's first global confrontation with excerpts from recently uncovered letters and diaries of those on the front lines and their friends at home

the nation emerged with its sense of purpose shattered

An untold story of scientists and engineers who changed the course of World War I

By Bela Zombory-Moldovan

while the limited traverse of its weapons prompted A7V crews to manoeuvre in a zigzag motion

and how each came to write their masterworks

as well as several foreign countries

and we should commend them for their actions

It structured the counter-revolution in central and Eastern Europe

New states rose from the ashes of empire