With Our Backs to the Wall - Victory and Defeat in 1918

Informationen zum Autor David Stevenson Klappentext At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. This book retells the story of 1918. It goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history. Zusammenfassung At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. This book retells the story of 1918. It goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history.

Product details

• Authors: David Stevenson, Stevenson David
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780141020792
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102079-2
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919, Battles & campaigns, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Battles and campaigns, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I