Show 54 Blueprint For Armageddon V

“Holger Herwig discusses the immense logistical needs of the German army during the First World War, highlighting the strain on civilian populations due to military demands.”

“Eric Dornbrose writes about the severe food shortages in Germany during the winter of 1916-1917, detailing the drastic decline in caloric intake and its impact on the population.”

“Barbara Tuckman wrote a whole book on it. The British figure out a way to sort of hide the source of, you know, how they got this cable.”

“the historical service of the French general staff placed casualties for the first four days of the offensive at 30,000 killed, 100,000 wounded, and 4,000 missing.”

“The story of what happened at this battle of Nivelles is a wonderful, you know, demonstration of how many things can go wrong when you're trying to synchronize everything so carefully.”

“Here's how writer G.J. Meyer describes the situation where the politicians come to the general and tell him to call the whole thing off now.”

“John Keegan, among other historians, has gone to great length to point out how there's an accordion-like backup that begins once the timetable isn't held too strictly.”

“The story of what happened was relayed to British journalist Philip Gibbs, who writes, quote, talking about the French infantry here.”

“Peter Hart in his wonderful book on the First World War, the Great War, quotes Private Norman Cliff, a British soldier in the first Grenadier Guards, describing the horrors of the battlefield.”

“In Brian Cooper's, the ironclads of Combray, he quotes a soldier at Epras describing a tragic incident involving a soldier stuck in a mud hole.”

“Writer Adam Hochschild in his book to End All Wars quotes a British major at Third Epirah who describes the horrors of soldiers bogged down in mud.”

“In his book in Flandersfields, Leon Wolfeels tells the story his way and says, quote. The following day, Lieutenant General Sir Lancelot Kigel paid his first visit to the fighting zone.”

“British military historian John Keegan, who's definitely in the anti-Hague camp, wrote, quote, On the psalm, he had sent the flower of British youth to death or mutilation.”