History of the World War, Volume Five, Simonds F.H., 1919

History of the World War, Volume Five, Simonds F.H., 1919.

Фрагмент из книги.
The last campaign of the World War was a fitting climax to a struggle which had endured already for more than three years and had surpassed all previous contests recorded in human history. In the final phase more than six millions of men, representing seven nations, fought for 235 days on a front of 250 miles from the North Sea to the Moselle, from the outer defences of Metz to the ruins of Nieuport. And the struggle was not limited to the west front. While Germany met her ancient foes in decisive contest on the battlefields of France, Italian armies first repulsed then crushed the Austrians on the Piave; Serbian, Greek, French, British, and Italian troops fought Bulgarians in Albania and Macedonia, and British troops overwhelmed the Turk on the Plain of Armageddon. Two continents furnished the battlefields, and five, reckoning Australia, supplied the combatants.




LUDENDORFF’S PURPOSE.
The refusal of the Allied civil and military authorities to consider any offensive operation, such as Foch had advised, automatically bestowed the initiative upon Ludendorff. In his memoirs the German commander tells the world that he considered three possible theatres of operations: the Flanders sector, between Lens and Ypres; the Verdun sector, on either side of the hills actually covering the town; and the Scarpe-Oise sector, mainly included within the boundaries of the old French province of Picardy.

He rejected the Verdun sector completely because the hilly character of the country promised difficulties in the exploitation of any victory, and, though he does not say this, unquestionably because Verdun had an unpleasant sound in German ears and anything but supreme success there would instantly set afloat a wave of pessimism, by recalling the terrible disappointments of the previous offensive. He had, further, very special reasons, easily recognizable now, for preferring to attack the British.

Contents.
PART I.
CHAPTER I THE FINAL PHASE.
CHAPTER II PICARDY—THE KAISER’S BATTLE.
CHAPTER III FLANDERS—THE BATTLE OF THE LYS.
CHAPTER IV THE CHEMIN DES DAMES.
CHAPTER V THE PEACE STORM-SECOND MARNE.
CHAPTER VI AMERICA FROM CANTIGNY TO ST. MIHIEL.
CHAPTER VII FOCH MANOEUVRES.
CHAPTER VIII ST. MIHIEL.
CHAPTER IX THE BATTLE OF THE HINDENBURG LINE.
CHAPTER X THE MEUSE-ARGONNE.
CHAPTER XI THE ARMISTICE.
CHAPTER XII THE OTHER FRONTS.
PART II.
I AMERICA’S CONTRIBUTION TO VICTORY.
II A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS OF THE WORLD WAR.
III THE PRONUNCIATION OF WAR NAMES.
IV INDEX TO ALL FIVE VOLUMES.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LIST OF MAPS.



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