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Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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farhad succeeded only in winning back from the British andFrench a little* less than a thousand square miles of blood-soaked and utterly devastated country. And yet for that whole week the Germans had seen theworld within their grasp; Frenchmen had looked ruin in theface; Englishmen wondered if the course of history had notturned against them, while Americans knew the humiliationof being unable on the firing-line to help friends whose livesas well their own were at stake. The German blow was infact a worse episode for the Entente than the retreat to theMarne in 1914, for at the Marne British armies had not to 34 LUDENDORFFS COLOSSAL DRIVE IN THE WEST any real extent been enrolled; Russian armies were still faraway from the front; America and Italy were not yet inthe war. But now the Entente world had summoned all itsforces against the Germans, and if the battle were lost theworld itself might be lost. Memory of those dark days inMarch, 1918, promised to hurt so long as those who lived
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AMERICAN SOLDIERS GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THEIRFRENCH COMRADES through them remained alive. The first really good newswas not to come until the beginning of the second week,when on )\Iarch 28 a great German assault on the Britishbuttress at Arras was stopt and on both flanks the Germanswere held; their offensive narrowing day by day, pushingdown in a point toward Am*ens, and Anally stopt in frontof the city. 35 ON THE WESTERN FRONT Hard blows were to come afterward in Flanders inApril, on the Aisne in May, toward Conipiegrne in June,and sometimes the danger was to be almost as great as inMarch; but the blackness of those first March days of theLudendorff offensive was never to return. This war prob-ably could not have been won—at least not in 1918—exceptfor the Americans who in June and July fought on theMarne and afterward in the Argonne, but we had to re-member that if French and British troops had not stopt theGermans in ^March, our men might never have had a chancein July, Sep

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