Book Description
Excerpt from The Battles of the Ridges: Arras Messines, March June 1917 The German military leaders read the writing on the wall. They might, at home, whistle to keep their courage up and circulate confident men dacities in neutral countries; but they knew. One ingeniously reassuring German statement (which found publication In an American mag azine that under a renegade Englishman played up for the Hun by attempting to deceive the United States people) proved by\maps that the Germans had lost less territory on the Somme In three months than the French had lost at Verdun in three weeks. But the German knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
