Five Days from Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War

A historian explores "with forensic precision" the dramatic turning point that changed the course of the Great War (The Scotsman).

On March 21, 1918, Germany initiated one of the most ferocious offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on Allied positions in a series of attacks that caused massive casualties, separated British and French forces, and drove the British back toward the Channel ports.

Five days later, as the German advan...