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This latest Imperial German Army History by Jack Sheldon covers a much shorter timeframe than any of his earlier published works, but does so with his usual expertise and analysis. After an introductory chapter tracing the situation in 1917 and the need for an orderly German withdrawal, along with the overall reasoning behind it, the Author explains how these decisions lead to the German Army developing and creating one of the wars most fearsome heavily reinforced defensive positions - 'The Hindenburg Line'. The narrative from this point on now concerns itself, in two individual sections, upon all of the German Army's defensive and counter offensive aspects as they conduct one of the wars most bitterly fought battles - The Battle of Cambrai which commenced on 20 November and concluded on 6 December. The First stage to be covered is the defensive battle of 20-29 November, to be followed by the German counter-attack which saw them regain not only most of the ground lost in the opening phase of the battle, but to actually achieve the unthinkable in this stage of the war - take ground away from the British and Commonwealth forces facing them. Detailed descriptions within cover all the

Who reads The German Army at Cambrai?

Author

Jack Sheldon, Foreword by, Professor Brian Bond

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844685042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities