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| MARTIN MARIX EVANS
1918 - THE YEAR OF VICTORIES
DANE TECHNICZNE (B24)
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liczba stron: 240
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OPIS KSIĄŻKI:
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| | At the outset of 1918 Germany faced, in the long term, certain defeat as a result of the American entry into the war against them and also as the outcome of the greater speed of technical innovation by the Allies in terms of aircraft and tanks. Victory could only be gained by the immediate application of overwhelming force in new tactical form; the "fire-waltz" artillery barrage and the storm-trooper infantry attack. The first offensive, Operation Michael in March, came wonderfully close to complete success but outran its supply lines and the endurance of its manpower. The last offensive, in the Champagne in July, was a total failure. The Allies’ preferred solution to fighting this war was harder to perfect. Combining the operations of artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft called for levels of sophistication in command and control never before achieved, but first and classically demonstrated by the Australian, General Monash, at Hamel on 4 July 1918 and deployed on a larger scale in the Battle of Amiens in August. There were still terrible attritional battles to be fought – in the Champagne, at Soissons, in the Argonne, on the Hindenburg Line – but as more Americans arrived the ghastly cost became affordable. For the Germans it became a question of whether they could negotiate an armistice before their armies were utterly destroyed. |
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