136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne
History That Doesn't Suck
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Germany's Prospects Are Souring Here in France as We Enter July 1918
Last March, the Kaiser's Imperial mustache-wearing commanders were filled with hope. Russia's exit from the war had just made three quarters of a million season troops available for an offensive on the Western Front. The first two operations terrified but didn't break the British in Flanders. Inflation has reduced those on a fixed income to poppers and food shortages are so common that the black market has become really the only market.
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