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Title: The story of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Usher, Roland Greene, 1880-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Macmillian
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rategy with their old device of drawing men from othersections of tne line. He must, however, if possible, surprise thefoe, and therefore must attack without extensive collections of menand material which the German aviators would see and understand,and also without extensive artillery preparation of the old type,which had practically told the enemy, I shall strike you here inthree or four days. On September 26, therefore, Foch threw the French and Ameri-cans against the Hindenburg Line between Rheims and Verdun.The operation was immediately successful in penetrating the Ger-man lines and presently drove through the first zone of defensesto the open beyond. He did not wait for success on this sectionbut the very day after the attack had begun in the south hurledthe Belgians and British against the German lines between Ypresand the coast. He meant to strike at the two ends of the lineso as to make reenforcement of either part as difficult as possible. 319 320 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR
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BREAKING THE HINDENBURG LINE 321 Success in the north would outflank the other lines of defense whichrested upon Lille. He had already determined that his chief strategy should be to Oct. 8,1918Di^ci-siv^ Day O N*^mor

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