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ONLINE: The Aisne Again – the Essence of Blitzkrieg in the Spring of 1918?

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The presentation will be live and online.  After relatively unsuccessful attacks on the Somme and the Lys, General Ludendorff sought a new sector in which to continue the heavy assaults of his 1918 Spring offensive. He chose the thinly held Aisne front between Soissons and Reims. The German advance here was the furthest ever made, on one day, on …