With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
David Stevenson, "With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918"
English | ISBN: 0674062264 | 2011 | 752 pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 4 MB + 8 MB + 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0674062264 | 2011 | 752 pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 4 MB + 8 MB + 5 MB
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end-the Allies' incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later.
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