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Richard J. Evans: The End of WW1, 15 December 2011
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
by David Stevenson.
Allen Lane, 688 pp., £30, May 2011,978 0 7139 9840 5 Show More
by David Stevenson.
Allen Lane, 688 pp., £30, May 2011,
“... on the Western Front increased from 3.25 million to more than four million men by April 1918. Paul von Hindenburg, a stolid general who effectively replaced the kaiser as the figurehead of the German war effort after being brought out of retirement to win spectacular victories on the Eastern Front early in the war, and Quartermaster-General Erich ... ”