With Our Backs to the Wall : Victory and Defeat in 1918

from Shrike58

I don't often hand out five stars to a book but this magisterial examination of why the Great War ended when it did is one of those times. Stevenson takes you from the last great offensives of the Central Powers, thru the Entente military response, to a systematic survey of how the various powers...

from douboy50

New release by David Stevenson. Well written and researched. This work deals with an analysis of the last several months of the First World War. It looks not only at the results from the battlefield starting with the March 21, 1918 German offensive, but also studies such variables as military int...

from CharlesFerdinand

As a first remark, I have to say that what David Stevenson doesn't know about 1918 isn't worth knowing. His grasp of the subject is really impressive. The main question of the book is why the armistice came end 1918 when it did, and sooner or later. The Allies were fully convinced that the war co...

from Shrike58

I don't often hand out five stars to a book but this magisterial examination of why the Great War ended when it did is one of those times. Stevenson takes you from the last great offensives of the Central Powers, thru the Entente military response, to a systematic survey of how the various powers...

from douboy50

New release by David Stevenson. Well written and researched. This work deals with an analysis of the last several months of the First World War. It looks not only at the results from the battlefield starting with the March 21, 1918 German offensive, but also studies such variables as military int...