Was 1916 the 'Year of Victory'?
In this lecture, Prof William Philpott looks at the year 1916 and the events on various fronts and suggests that, despite the outcomes on the Somme and elsewhere, final victory was brought nearer as a result of the war of attrition that was pursued in this middle-year of the war.
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