1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs

Utilizing an unparalleled collection of memoirs, diaries and letters written by the men who fought, van Emden tells the riveting story of 1918, when decisive victory was grasped from near catastrophe. The Germans gambled with their best, battle-hardened men in one desperate offensive after another, searching for a decisive breakthrough that never came. Well illus.