Amiens 1918: Victory from Disaster Uniforms by Peter Balakian

by Peter Balakian

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singling out the Australian Corps commander for particular criticism

Amiens 1918: Victory from Disaster Uniforms by Peter BalakianDescription by Gregory Blaxland Hardcover As the realities of the changing nature of warfare by late 1917 made the retention of static lines, no matter how sophisticated, no longer a long term viable option for the defense; and with Russia knocked out of the war, the Germans under Hindenburg and Ludendorff determined on a bold series of major offensives, the first of which was aimed at the British Fifth Army with the objective of seizing Amiens, a