Alistair Mccluskey: The Hindenburg Line 1918 [2017] paperback Condition:New David Greentree assesses the role

David Greentree assesses the role and effectiveness of rifle-armed British troops and their French open-order opponents in three very different encounters: Rolica (August 1808)

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Alistair Mccluskey: The Hindenburg Line 1918 [2017] paperback Condition:New David Greentree assesses the roleFrom 26 September until 8 October 1918, the Allied armies in France launched their largest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. The British, French, American and Belgian armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders. At the centre of this huge assault the British, First, Third and Fourth Armies, led by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, breached the formidable Hindenburg