Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

by Nick Lloyd
Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

by Nick Lloyd

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Overview

In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued-known as the Hundred Days Campaign-saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe.

In Hundred Days, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the endgame of World War I, showing how the timely arrival of American men and materiel-as well as the bravery of French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers-helped to turn the tide on the Western Front. Many of these battle-hardened troops had endured years of terror in the trenches, clinging to their resolve through poison-gas attacks and fruitless assaults across no man's land. Finally, in July 1918, they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater. Using surprise attacks, innovative artillery tactics, and swarms of tanks and aircraft, they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion: the Hindenburg Line, a formidable network of dugouts, barbed wire, and pillboxes. After a massive assault, the Allies broke through, racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace.

An epic tale ranging from the ravaged fields of Flanders to the revolutionary streets of Berlin, Hundred Days recalls the bravery and sacrifice that finally silenced the guns of Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465074921
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Nick Lloyd is a senior lecturer in defense studies at King's College London and the author of Hundred Days. He lives in Cheltenham, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Maps xi

Glossary xxiii

Preface: Death at Gouzeaucourt xxv

Prologue: 'Surprise was complete' 1

1 Decision on the Marne 9

2 'Neglect nothing' 28

3 'Death will have a rich harvest' 44

4 'Another black day' 62

5 'The incredible roar of massed guns' 78

6 'The whole thing was simply magnificent' 97

7 Enter the Americans 115

8 'A country of horror and desolation' 133

9 Return to the Wilderness 150

10 'Just one panorama of hell' 167

11 The Tomb of the German World Empire 181

12 'The most desperate battle of our history' 199

13 'A last struggle of despair' 216

14 'Cowards die many times' 234

15 Armistice at Compiègne 252

Epilogue 271

Acknowledgements 281

Select Bibliography 283

References 293

Index 331

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