1st Edition

The German 1918 Offensives A Case Study in The Operational Level of War

By David T. Zabecki Copyright 2006
436 Pages
by Routledge

436 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He presents his findings here for the... Read more

1. Why do we Still Bother with World War I?  2. The Operational Art  3. The Tactical Realities of 1918  4. The Strategic Reality  5. The Operational Decision: 11 November 1917 to 21 January 1918  6. Operations MICHAEL and MARS  7. Operation GEORGETTE  8. Operations BLÜCHER, GOERZ, and YORCK  9. Operations GNEISSENAU and HAMMERSCHLAG  10. Operation MARNESCHUTZ-REIMS  11. Operations HAGEN and KURFÜRST  12. Conclusions

Biography

David T. Zabecki has been Commanding General of the U.S. Southern European Task Force (Rear) and has served as the U.S. Department of Defense Executive Director for all World War II 60th anniversary commemoration events in Europe. In 2003 he was the Senior Security Advisor on the U.S. Coordinating and Monitoring Mission in Israel. The Editor of Vietnam Magazine, he has a PhD in Military Science from the Royal Military College of Science.

"Zabecki ... has earned a reputation as an outstanding military historian. An essential read for students of the Great War, and an important one for those interested in military operations since its end." - The NYMAS Review, The New York Military Affairs Symposium