The ‘Black Day’ that Marked the Start of the Last Hundred Days

By Michael Seymour The Black Day Der 8. August ist der schwarze Tag des deutschen Heeres in der Geschichte dieses Krieges.[1] From his perspective in 1919, with Germany defeated on the battlefield, its monarchy overthrown by revolution and replaced by a struggling, new democracy (the Weimar Republic), the German general Ludendorff was clear that the … Continue reading The ‘Black Day’ that Marked the Start of the Last Hundred Days