Moving but not going anywhere: optimism fails! l THE GREAT WAR Week 49

Two months after the landing at Gallipoli, the fight became trench warfare. In Mesopotamia, British troops were losing the optimism they had felt just weeks before. The change of season brought more heat, making the weather go from bearable to unbearable. Heat has become a mortal enemy. While German Crown Prince Wilhelm unsuccessfully attempted to break through the Western Front in the Ardennes, Austro-German forces managed to push the Russians back to the East.

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Gilbert, Martin. WWI. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Pierre, Norman. First World War. A brief history, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. World War I, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Disaster of 1914. Europe goes to war, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
Michalka, Wolfgang. The Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analysis, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000
Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, CH Beck, 2014

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