Cheerful Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras, 1917

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.
Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench ...