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CONTENTS
Contributors
Foreword
General Sir Nicholas Carter KCB, CBE, DSO, ADC Gen
Chapter 1
Introduction
1918: the final year of World War I and its long shadow in history
Dr Matthias Strohn
The German Army in 1918
Major General (Ret'd) Dr David T. Zabecki
The French Army in 1918
Dr David Murphy
The British Army in 1918
Dr Jonathan Boff
The US Army in 1918
Professor Mitch Yockelson
The Forgotten Fronts in Europe
Russia, Italy, and the Balkans in 1918
Professor Lothar Höbelt
The War Outside of Europe
Dr Rob Johnson
The Great War at Sea in 1918
The role of sea power in achieving victory
Professor Dr Michael Epkenhans
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
The Air Campaign of 1918
Dr James S. Corum
Chapter 10 Learning from 1918 on the Western Front
Major General (Ret’d) Mungo Melvin CB OBE
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Glossary and Abbreviations
CONTRIBUTORS
General Sir Nicholas Carter KCB, CBE, DSO, ADC Gen commissioned into The
Royal Green Jackets in 1978. At Regimental Duty he has served in Northern
Ireland, Cyprus, Germany, Bosnia, and Kosovo and commanded 2nd Battalion, The
Royal Green Jackets, from 1998 to 2000. He attended Army Staff College, the
Higher Command and Staff Course and the Royal College of Defence Studies. He
was Military Assistant to the Assistant Chief of the General Staff, Colonel Army
Personnel Strategy, spent a year at HQ Land Command writing the Collective
Training Study, and was Director of Army Resources and Plans. He also served as
Director of Plans within the US-led Combined Joint Task Force 180 in Afghanistan
and spent three months in the Cross Government Iraq Planning Unit prior to the
invasion of Iraq in 2003. General Carter commanded 20th Armoured Brigade in
Iraq in 2004 and 6th Division in Afghanistan in 2009/10. He was then the Director
General Land Warfare before becoming the Army 2020 Team Leader. He served as
DCOM ISAF from October 2012 to August 2013, became Commander Land Forces
in November 2013, and was appointed Chief of the General Staff in September
2014.
Dr Matthias Strohn FRHistS
was educated at the universities of Münster
(Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the German
Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr). From 2006 until 2016 he
worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst. He is currently on secondment to the British Army’s
think tank, the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research in Camberley.
In addition, he is a Reader at the Humanities Research Centre at the University of
Buckingham where he works in the areas of Military History and War Studies. He
holds a commission in the German Army and is a member of the military attaché
reserve, having served on the defence attaché staffs in London, Paris, and Madrid.
He has published widely on 20th-century German and European military history
and is an expert on the German Army in World War I and the inter-war period.
He has advised British and German government bodies on the World War I
centenary commemorations.
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