To the Last Man: Spring 1918 - Softcover

MacDonald, Lyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786707976 ISBN 13: 9780786707973

Verlag: Basic Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

As poignant as Niall Fregusson's The Pity of War, as powerful as John Keegan's The First World War, this is an engrossing eye-witness history of World War I. From the trenches to the battle lines, in bold advances and fighting retreats and courageous stands, this oral chronicle of World War I by award-winning historian Lyn Macdonald brings to life the massive German offensive of Spring 1918 that became the Second Battle of Somme. As moving as it is monumental, the volume recounts the devastating assault in the words of the men who survived it -- from the commanders to the war-weary British Tommies, the eager German foot soldiers, and the as-yet-untested doughboys fresh from the U.S. Unforgettably, To the Last Man puts a human face on the armies in the field as it gives voice to the soldiers who together held their position against the foe-resisting, as the Allied command had ordered, "to the last round and the last man."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0786707976
• ISBN 13: 9780786707973
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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