VCs of the First World War: Spring Offensive 1918 - Gerald Gliddon - Bog

At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main opponent, Germany, had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. Nevertheless, although the German Army left the British Army reeling, the Tommies retreated in good order and fought all the way.