The Hindenburg Line 1918: Haig’s forgotten triumph Belgian History “The One-Legged Wonder

“The One-Legged Wonder

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they also lacked practice in many of the required disciplines of modern warfare

The Hindenburg Line 1918: Haig’s forgotten triumph Belgian History “The One-Legged WonderDescription By Alistair McCluskey Paperback From September 26 until October 6, 1918, the Allied armies in France, led by British army commander Sir Douglas Haig, launched their biggest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. Two million troops of the British, French, American, and Belgian Armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne and Flanders. This huge assault drove the German Army