The Hindenburg Line 1918

Haig’s forgotten triumph

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From September 26 until October 6, 1918, the Allied armies in France, led by British army commander Sir Douglas Haig, launched their biggest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. Two million troops of the British, French, American, and Belgian Armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders. This huge assault drove the German Army from its last fully prepared defensive position west of the German border and ensured that the War ended in 1918.

The impact of this defeat had a shattering effect on the Germans. Their army admitted for the first time that an armistice was required to save it from annihilation, peace feelers were sent out to the Americans and the Kaiser began the process of democratizing Germany. Although these decisive results were to a large extent consequences of the battle of the Hindenburg Line, the subsequent controversies over the conduct of the war meant that it went unheralded and has remained Haig's forgotten triumph.

Table of Contents

The strategic situation

Chronology
Opposing commanders
Opposing forces
Opposing plans
The campaign
Aftermath
The battlefield today

Further reading
Index

Product details

Published Oct 24 2017
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472820303
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 170 b/w; 45 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 315
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Alistair McCluskey

Alistair McCluskey is a serving officer in the Bri…

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Peter Dennis

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