Amiens 1918: Victory from Disaster Uniforms as well as private collections

as well as private collections

But little did he know that the dramatic

by Peter Balakian

He follows men whose mental health was forever destroyed by shell shock

a fierce German army is on the other

Amiens 1918: Victory from Disaster Uniforms as well as private collectionsDescription by Gregory Blaxland Hardcover As the realities of the changing nature of warfare by late 1917 made the retention of static lines, no matter how sophisticated, no longer a long term viable option for the defense; and with Russia knocked out of the war, the Germans under Hindenburg and Ludendorff determined on a bold series of major offensives, the first of which was aimed at the British Fifth Army with the objective of seizing Amiens, a