Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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power alone the Allies had dealt theenemy a staggering blow from which he could not recover.German power had passed its zenith months before, whiledaily, almost hourly, since then, the Allied strength had beengrowing as every American troopship touched the shores ofEurope. When Ludendorff confest that the Allies had found a wayto evade the German blow and to counter with anothereven more powerful blow, he wrote ^Finis^ on the greatGerman western offensive. There might be other tapering-down efforts by the Germans to break through somewhere inFrance. The Crown Prince of Bav^aria might want to tryagain after the Crown Prince of Prussia had so pitifullyfailed. But the prestige of the German method was gone.Its power, too, was gone. The Hutier shock-system had beenthe chief asset behind Germanys bid for a decision this year.When it no longer worked, another offensive became only anempty privilege in German hands. Foch was only anevader in Ludendorffs eyes, but the results of his great 288
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FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES victory were secure. The hands on the German time-clockfor 1918 had been turned a long way back. Ludendorffcould regain the initiative only on conditions which wouldmake him pause and think, for a German offensive on anyother sector of the line might easily prove, under the changedaspect of things, another boomerang. It might repeat thefatal misadventure which Germans now associated with whathad become for them the most odious of all military catch-words—the Marne. One thing was plain, and the subtleties of the GermanStaff could not conceal it: The Crown Princes army hadbeen beaten in every conceivable form of warfare by French,British, Italians, and Americans. The forces under the heirto the Imperial throne had been driven from trenches,strongholds, and natural positions easily adaptable for de-fense. They had been driven across open country in retreat,and their counter-attacks, skilfully organized and remorse-lessly pushed, had been repelled. They had been ou

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