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

by Walter Reid

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

Five days later, as the German advance continued, one of the most dramatic summits of the war took place in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780274904
• ISBN13: 9781780274904
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"