The Way to Victory, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint). Philip Gibbs
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Author: Philip Gibbs
Page Count: 414 pages
Published Date: 19 Jun 2016
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781331062998
Download Link: The Way to Victory, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 1 of 2
In my last book of collected dispatches - "From Bapaume to Passchendaele" - I dealt first with the German retreat after the Somme battles to the shelter of their Hindenburg line; then with the Arras battles which began with a striking victory and petered out into minor actions when our troops, with grim perseverance and no light losses, continued to hold German divisions so that the French might strike more freely elsewhere; and, in the third part, with the battles in Flanders - those muddy, bloody battles of last year - ending with the capture of the ridges. All that fighting, so heroic, so costly, so disappointing as it seemed in its immediate and apparent results when in March and April of this year, 1918, the enemy came sprawling back over all the ground we had gained, must be remembered in order to understand the happenings that followed - the incomplete success of the Cambrai adventure in November, the great retreat in March, the arrival of the Germans on the Marne with their dreadful threat to Paris, and the strategy of the French Generalissimo, the fine genius of Foch, so patient in his waiting for the moment to strike back, so terrific when he struck, leading up to the glorious recovery and victories of the British armies in August and September. For in war as in normal life there are no isolated facts. Nothing happens that is not the direct consequence of previous events and conditions, and that does not lead like a chain of fate to results that follow by inevitable laws.
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