With our backs to the wall
victory and defeat in 1918
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Publication
2011 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
181,500 words, Guess
Page Count
726 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewithourbackstowa1918stev
- Internet Archivewithourbackstowa0000stev
- ISBN-100674062264
- ISBN-139780674062269
- Library of Congress Control Number2011011916
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number709670290
- Better World Books9780674062269
- Open LibraryOL25094063M
Classifications
- DDC940.4/34
- LCCD531 .S73 2011
- LCCD531.S73 2011
Description
At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. Despite America's entry into the war the US army remained tiny, the Italian army had been routed, and Russia had dropped out of the conflict. The Central Powers now dominated Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany could move over forty divisions to the Western Front. Yet only one year later, on 11 November 1918, the fighting ended in a decisive Allied victory. Stevenson's rich and compelling book retells the story of 1918, and with penetrating original research goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history. - Publisher.
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- With our backs to the wall: victory and defeat in 1918
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