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<title> History Of The World War, Volume 1; History Of The World War; Frank Herbert Simonds
<author> Frank Herbert Simonds
<publisher> Published for the Rew of Rews Co. by Doubleday, Page, 1917
<subjects> History; Military; World War I; History / Military / World War I; World War, 1914-1918
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The World War, entering its thirty-fourth month, as these linesare written, has had three distinct phases, both on the military side and on the larger and more significant human side. The three mi Htary phases are supplied by the Marne campaign and its immediate consequences; the Russian campaign, with its Balkan episode and its Verdun ending; the Allied offensive in the west, which began at the Somme in July, 1916, and is still proceeding before Arras and along the old Aisne battlefield. In the Marne campaign Germany sought a complete triumph by a swift and terrible thrust at France, the only one of her foes then in any sense prer pared for war. Her thrust was parried at the Marne and permanently blocked at the Yser and at Ypres. Thereafter she had to turn east and restore the failing fortunes of Austria and protect her own imperilled marches. In the Russian campaign Germany sought to dispose of Russia, as she had endeavoured to dispose of France in the Marne campaign. Immediate success escaped her in this field. Despite terrible defeats and long retreats, Russian resistance was not broken, although the Russian Revolution, now the main factor on the eastern front and unmistakably a consequence of Russian defeat gives to the German campaign of 1915 a value that was not perceived at the time. What the permanent value will be remains problematical. But as she had to turn east, with her western task incomplete in 1914, Germany had, after a brief and glorious campaign on behalf of her Turkish ally, to return west in February, 1916, and seek at Verdun what she had not attained on the Marne. Her failure there cost her the initiative and condemned her to the defensive. The campaign which opened at the Somme is still proceeding. Since they began their attack on July i, 1916, the Allies have steadily, if only slowly, pushed the Germans back and the recent victory of
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