Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I Author: Nick Lloyd | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ET7IZDE | Format: EPUB
Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I Description
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.
- File Size: 7989 KB
- Print Length: 402 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books (January 28, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ET7IZDE
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"Did anyone really care whether Alsace-Lorraine was French or German?" Using those words, British history professor Nick Lloyd summed up German thoughts at the end of the "Great War" as the German government considered surrendering to the Allied forces in Fall, 1918, in his new book, "Hundred Days".
August 1914 - young men from Britain to Austro-Hungary marched gaily off to war. They'd be home by Christmas, these fearless young men told themselves - and each other. But as the years went by with battles gaining literally inches and men living - and dying - in hideous trenches in France and Belgium, by summer of 1918, the war was finally creaking to an end. The American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side had given the French, British, and Dominion troops an added boost to those armies who had been fighting for three years, often to a standoff with the Germans on the Western Front, in a war of attrition.
Nick LLoyd, a senior lecturer of Defense Studies, at Kings College, London, lost a great-uncle at the French village of Gouzeaucourt, just six weeks or so before the Armistice. Lloyd has written an amazingly readable book about those last hundred days of WW1. He looks at the war from British, German, French, and American sides and examines both the military battles at the Front and the political battles behind the scenes. He includes maps at the front of the book which detail the battles fought and military lines that had to be crossed by the advancing Allies and defended by the Germans.
One of the most interesting parts of the book deals with the political situation in Germany as the war caused the collapse of the Kaiser's government. Lloyd looks at the cries of "betrayal by the Communists/Bolshevics/Jews/Defeatists" that lasted well into the 1920's and '30's. Nick LLoyd has done a wonderful job looking at a smallish slice of time in a much larger conflict. Great book for WW1 history readers.
By Jill Meyer
TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I by Nick Lloyd is a commendable work that sheds much light on a campaign that brings a devastating war to an end. And with it Nick Lloyd enters an exclusive club of Great War historians, which is an achievement as difficult as ending World War I. Lloyd’s account of the war’s final campaign which he described as “an incredible story of shot and shell, of battles on a scale almost unimaginable to modern generations” is insightful, and a timely reminder of the tide that turned the course of the war.
The “Hundred Days” covers the period from August 8 to November 11, 1918, during which a series of well-organized Allied attacks were launched that pushed the Germans out of France and resulted in the German government to ultimately seek peace. What comes as a surprise is the dearth of books on the end of WWI while the market has been literally flooded with hundreds of books about its origins. Nick Lloyd’s book filled the large vacuum in the history of the war.
Unlike other books on an important chapter in the annals of history which tend to be lengthy and voluminous, this book is tight with less than 400 pages, containing fifteen chapters, a prologue, preface, epilogue, selected bibliography, reference list, glossary, map section, illustrations and acknowledgements. Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War is a job well-done and should be in the hands of all historians and researchers.
By Khamneithang Vaiphei
TOP 500 REVIEWER
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