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London School of Economics and Political Science
With our backs to the wall: victory and defeat in 1918
There is now a paperback edition of With Our Backs to the Wall. London, Penguin Books, 2012. ISBN 978-0-141-02079-1. There is also a US version: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-06226-9.
This book offers a comprehensive international analysis of the First World War’s final year. It is the outcome of six years of work. It draws on multi-lingual archival research in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Canada, and combines military, diplomatic, political, and economic approaches. It offers a complex and extensive thesis covering all theatres of the war and a comprehensive thematic analysis based on the collection of a huge body of material covering strategy and operations in 1918.
