![]() ![]() But before we dive into that, we are going to take a look at two different items which are sort of side stories, the first will be the Battle of Hamel and then a quick check in on the Americans and what they were doing back at home to try and increase their contribution to the war effort. While the German attacks had been quite successful, they had not won the war, and not it was time for the Allies to hit back, and they would hit back very hard. Today, we focus on the Marne, where French, American, British, and even a few Italians would stop the Germans in front of Paris and then begin the process of driving them back. HUNDRED DAYS OFFENSIVE SERIESThen finally we will close out the series by looking at the general offensive that would be launched all along the front and which will take us all the way to the armistice. Mihiel and then the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Then we will stped a few episodes focusing on the Americna efforts at St. Our story today starts before the Second Battle of the Marne, which we will then cover, then next episode we will move our focus to the first large planned Allied offensive of 1918 at Amiens. There would be huge casualties on all sides during this period, with hundreds of thousands of Germans also taken prisoners, but for the first time in 4 years the Entente troops, now joined by the Americans, would acheieve real, and obvious, victories on the Western Front. During this period, often called the 100 Days the Western Front would blow right open with the Allies attacking from Verdun to the sea and the Germans frantically trying to fend them off. Over the next 9 or so episodes we will see the German offensives come to an end, the Allied counterstroke on the Marne, and then the general attack that would take the Allies all the way to November. This is it, the start of the last big series of episodes before we arrive at the armistice on November 11th 1918. **The First World War by John KeeganPyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War **by Robert A. Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War 1 by Nick Lloyd ![]() **To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War **by Edward G. With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson The Real Controller of the Battle: The Importance of Studying Tactical Battalion Command - A Case Study by William Westerman ![]() The Day We Won the War: Turning Point at Amiens 8th August 1918 by Charles Messengerįorty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson **Tanks in the Hundred Days 1918 - A Diminishing Resource **by Roger Blaber Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 by Byron Farwell The History of the Great war is also available on Stitcher Images ![]()
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