1918-Catastrophe to Victory: Volume 2-The Allied 'Hundred Days' Offensive, August-November 1918

The final battles to Allied victory in the West

The German Ludendorff Spring Offensive, launched at the Allied lines in Spring 1918, proved to be perilously close the right solution to achieve battlefield victory. Typically for German initiatives it was meticulously planned with coordinated operations working along an established critical timeline. While initially highly successful, the advance took longer than expected and Allied tenacity resulted in ill-conceived remedial actions which sta...