ASIN: B00L2K4CO2
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Pages: 363
1916. The year that a new word entered the military lexicon.
The war of Attrition.
At the start of 1916, the outlook was the Franco-British Armies on the Western Front.
They were getting the men and guns they needed. New technology in the shape of tanks and aircraft was about to appear and, after more than a year of fighting what amounted to private wars, the Entente Powers (Britain, France, Italy and their allies) were about to mount a number of co-ordinated offensives against the German and Austrian Armies, culminating in the Big Push - a joint Anglo-French offensive astride the Somme.
But then, unfortunately for the Allies, the Germans struck first, at Verdun.
By New Years Day, 1916, the fighting on the Western Front had cost some two million lives - by the end of the year it had risen to four million men and the territorial gains had been negligible.
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