The German Offensives of 1918 by Ian Passingham

Author:Ian Passingham [Passingham, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781844685615
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

So, with the exception of some progress on the right flank, the grand Mars offensive proved to be an abject failure. Around Morlancourt, some of the German-held territory was actually lost to General Sir John Monash’s 3rd Australian Division, just less than two years on from the infamous ‘first day on the Somme’. But this time it was a German massacre before the wire and under the deadly machine guns and artillery of the British defenders.

Eyewitnesses described the fruitless German attacks:

The Germans came on time after time with the greatest bravery, sometimes almost shoulder to shoulder, each time assured that it required but one more effort to break the British front, only to be held and then repulsed by the combined force of guns, machine guns and rifles.

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