Charles River Editors
ASIN: B00VATUH12
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 50
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“No compromise on the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong -- that is the Declaration of July 4th, 1918.” – Winston Churchill, a month prior to the Hundred Days OffensiveWorld War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented bloodbath in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about ...