Full name: With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

Author: David Stevenson Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780674062269 0674062264

The author tells the story of the final year of the First World War, and goes to the roots of this dramatic reversal of fortune, analysing the reasons for Allied success and the collapse of Germany and its partners. Everything from food supply to finance, from strategy to technology, logistics and morale is explored. Similar books: In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff 1914 by Lyn MacDonald The Great War by Peter Hart Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead The Somme by Martin Gilbert The Road to Verdun by Ian Ousby No Man's Land by John Toland A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan Tommy by Richard Holmes Somme by Lyn MacDonald The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier Catastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn MacDonald The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn MacDonald 1914-1918 by David Stevenson Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer