To the Last ManTo the Last Man
Spring 1918
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Book, 1999
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Current format, Book, 1999, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsAs 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."
An oral history of the final German offensive during World War I chronicles the last major battle in that war in all its horror, from the generals and officers who planned it to the soldiers who were killed and maimed carrying out their orders.
An oral history of the final German offensive during World War I chronicles the last major battle in that war in all its horror, from the generals and officers who planned it to the soldiers who were killed and maimed carrying out their orders
An oral history of the final German offensive during World War I chronicles the last major battle in that war in all its horror, from the generals and officers who planned it to the soldiers who were killed and maimed carrying out their orders.
An oral history of the final German offensive during World War I chronicles the last major battle in that war in all its horror, from the generals and officers who planned it to the soldiers who were killed and maimed carrying out their orders
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