What’s more, in 1917, the United States entered the war. Operation Michael saw major temporary territorial gains for the advancing Germans, in some cases 40 miles deep. Image: A British patrol moves through the barbed wire on the Western Front (© IWM Q 103705)Įarly in 1918, German High Command had gambled on the Spring Offensive: one role of the dice aimed at breaking Allied lines and winning the war. The state of the Western Front in August 1918 It was a truly cooperative effort, however, with the British Empire fighting alongside comrades from France, Belgium, and the United States. In addition to UK units, troops from Canada, India, South Africa, and Australia took part in the myriad battles of the campaign. The Hundred Days drew in forces from across the British Empire. The advance, while gruelling and casualty-heavy, essentially broke the German Army’s will to fight, leading to the Armistice and end of the fighting on the Western Front in November 1918.
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The period known as the Hundred Days Offensive spanned from 8th August to 11th November 1918.Īlso known as the Advance to Victory, the Hundred Days Offensive was a series of Allied advances and victories that pushed the Imperial German Army back to the battlefields of 1914. The Hundred Days Offensive What was the Hundred Days Offensive?Ĩ August 1918, Will Longstaff (Wikimedia Commons) 105 years on, we tell the tale of this momentous campaign through the stories of the men who fought it. With the Hundred Days Offensive, the tide finally turned on the Western Front.
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