The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . © UNDERWOOD & UhDERWOQD GERMAN DRESS HELMETS INTENDED FOR USE IN A MARCH INTO PARIS These helmets are a part of a collection said to have numbered that were found in Rhenish Prussia by the American Army of Occupation, in 1918. some of which were sent to tM^ country and employed as exhibits to stimulate subscriptions to the Victory*Loan of May. 1919 IfiO ON THE WESTERN FRONT Part XIII THE SECOND BATTLE OP PLAOTJERS, THE CHEMn^ DES DAMES, VBEDUN AI
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . © UNDERWOOD & UhDERWOQD GERMAN DRESS HELMETS INTENDED FOR USE IN A MARCH INTO PARIS These helmets are a part of a collection said to have numbered that were found in Rhenish Prussia by the American Army of Occupation, in 1918. some of which were sent to tM^ country and employed as exhibits to stimulate subscriptions to the Victory*Loan of May. 1919 IfiO ON THE WESTERN FRONT Part XIII THE SECOND BATTLE OP PLAOTJERS, THE CHEMn^ DES DAMES, VBEDUN AIS^D CAMBEAI 161. AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL PHOTO, ATi?TRALIAXS PRErARINC FOR MESSIXES RIDGEThose soldiers are studying a great model of tlie^ terrain to be talien, tlieniodel true in every detail and covering more than an arre ot ground ] 1 MESSINES RIDGEJune 7. 1917—July 28, 1917 FOR twelve months the front between the sea and theLys River had been all but stagnant, after having beenfor the first two jeara of the war the chief fighting area ofthe British. In the half-moon of -hills around Ypres, andtte ridges of Wytschaete and Messines, the Germans hadviewpoints whieh commanded the whole countryside, andespecially the British line within the salient, so that anyBritish preparations for attack would be under Germaneyes. Moreover, the heavy, water-logged clay where theBritish front was maintained lay at the mercy of weather,and in rain became a bottomless swamp. The Germans wereacutely conscious of the importance of the terrain, and therewas little chance of taking them by surprize. But now inJune war f
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