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The Kaiser's Battle

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Kaiser's Battle
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Martin Middlebrook
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:430
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreFirst world war
ISBN/Barcode 9781844154982
ClassificationsDewey:940.434
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Imprint Pen & Sword Military
Publication Date 15 February 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

At 9.30am on 21 March 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It was the first day of what the Germans called the Kaiserschlacht ('the Kaiser's Battle'), the series of attacks that were intended to break the deadlock on the Western Front, knock the British Army out of the war, and finally bring victory to Germany. In the event the cost of the gamble was so heavy that once the assault faltered, it remained for the Allies to push the exhausted German armies back and the War was at last over. Critics accounts: The clever blending of written and oral accounts from some 650 surviving British and German soldiers makes the book an extremely convincing reconstruction. SUNDAY TIMES AUTHOR: Martin Middlebrook is one of the leading historians on The Great War. His books include The First Day on the Somme and Your Country Needs You. Other works include The Peenemunde Raid and Task Force : The Falklands War. He lives in Lincolnshire.

Author Biography

Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-points in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, Kaiser's Battle, The Peenemunde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook) and The Nuremberg Raid 30-31st March 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword). Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives near Boston, Lincolnshire