Scorched Earth: The Germans on the Somme 1914-1918

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Автор: Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, Irina Renz

Название: Scorched Earth: The Germans on the Somme 1914-1918

Издательство: Pen and Sword

Год: 2009

Формат: EPUB

Страниц: 256

Размер: 4 Mb

Язык: English

This book discusses in detail the experience of German warfare in the first World War, focusing specifically on the battle of the Somme. The Somme, together with other regions of northern France, had also lain under German domination. Its inhabitants had been rigorously suppressed and their possessions carted off as booty. Finally, during their 1917 withdrawal, the Germans had subjected the whole region to Operation Alberich, a retreat involving unparalleled brutality which left the population in occupation of a wilderness wrought by war (the "scorched earth policy").