Excerpt from Nelson's History of the War, Vol. 23: The Dawn The first problem was, therefore, to get a superior mobility 111 the attack, and to bring in the element of surprise. This the Germans achieved at St. Quentin by the use of storm battalions and the method of infiltration. Their plan was bettered by F och by the use of his light tanks. There was now no need for a prolonged artillery bombardment the tanks were sufficient to sweep a path for the infantry. There was less need also for elaborate preparations before the ...
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Excerpt from Nelson's History of the War, Vol. 23: The Dawn The first problem was, therefore, to get a superior mobility 111 the attack, and to bring in the element of surprise. This the Germans achieved at St. Quentin by the use of storm battalions and the method of infiltration. Their plan was bettered by F och by the use of his light tanks. There was now no need for a prolonged artillery bombardment the tanks were sufficient to sweep a path for the infantry. There was less need also for elaborate preparations before the battle, and consequently an attack could be rapidly designed for any area where the prospects seemed favourable. It was precisely this consequence of the new system of war which the German Staff did not grasp. They allowed an action which was based essentially on surprise to drift into a stationary battle. They permitted their army to become accroche', alike on the Somme, on the Lys, and on the Marne and, therefore, sooner or later they Were faced by Allied reserves and brought to a standstill. Their method could only hate suc-r ceeded had there been no such reserves - a point on which Ludendorfi was in singular error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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