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I Wish They'd Killed You in a Decent Show: The Bloody Fighting for Croisilles, Fontaine-les-Croisilles and the Hindenburg Line, March 1917 to August 1918. Brighton: Reveille Press. ISBN 978-1-908336-72-9. Yockelson, Mitchell (2016). Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I. New York: New ...
The Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918) was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.Beginning with the Battle of Amiens (8–12 August) on the Western Front, the Allies pushed the Imperial German Army back, undoing its gains from the German spring offensive (21 March – 18 July).
The Canadians then broke the Hindenburg line a second time, this time during the Battle of Cambrai, which (along with the Australian, British and American break further south at the Battle of St. Quentin Canal) resulted in a collapse of German morale. This collapse forced the German High Command to accept that the war had to be ended.
In 1918, the world's population was menaced by a virus now known as influenza. The "flu," for short, has become a commonality that is widely misunderstood, even a century after it claimed 50 ...
The study estimated 424,000 war-related deaths of civilians over the age of one in Germany, not including Alsace-Lorraine, and the authors attributed the civilian deaths over the prewar level primarily to food and fuel shortages in 1917–1918. The study also estimated an additional 209,000 Spanish flu deaths in 1918. [58]
The arrival of the German armistice delegates, 1918 Foch's personal headquarters carriage, "The Compiègne Wagon" in 1918 The Armistice was the result of a hurried and desperate process. The German delegation headed by Erzberger crossed the front line in five cars and was escorted for ten hours across the devastated war zone of Northern France ...
After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their approach to public health and disease. Will we do the same after COVID-19? After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their ...
Brig-Gen J. V. Campbell on Riqueval Bridge addresses men of 137th Brigade after breaking the German's Hindenburg Line defences on 29 September 1918. During the war, the composition of the division was as follows: [1] [11] [12] [13] 137th (Staffordshire) Brigade. 1/5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment; 1/6th Battalion, South Staffordshire ...