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The 100 Days Offensive

After more than three years of paralysis, mobile warfare returned to the Western Front in 1918. The German Spring Offensive stalled in July and the...

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Introduction to the First World War

The Italian Front

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When we picture the First World War, we don't necessarily think of snowy battlefields high up in the Alps. Yet that is exactly what many Italian soldiers had to contend with.

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