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March 20 - 2018
KAIPARA LIFESTYLER
World War One Centennial When we held the line u by Andy Bryenton
All the blood and mud of the first Somme offensive — all the sacrifice and horror of Passchendaele and the heroism of Messines, the first ever tank offensive at Flers-Courcelette, the disaster and bravery of Gallipoli — the Anzacs had been through it all. However, when spring came to the frozen western front in 1918, it may have all seemed to be in vain.
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After the communist revolution, Russia had sued for peace. Whole new armies marched west across Germany and Austria-Hungary, preparing to batter the defenders from the alps to the sea. Under the command of aggressive strategist General Erich Ludendorff, 50 divisions freed up from the Russian front would hammer through the allied line into undefended France. Should they succeed, the plan was to divide and conquer, surrounding the allied trenches from both front and rear. It would be a slaughter.
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p Machinery of war - new weapons like the machine gun and tank took a bloody toll on armies used to field warfare
When allied high command heard of the plan they discovered a terrible fact — seven kilometers of trenches in the Somme area, still a ruined hellscape
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of craters, wire and mud — were all but undefended. This gap, between Hamel and Hebuturne, would soon be attacked as part of Ludendorff’s
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