Who really won the First World War?
I have come across a book by Shane Schreiber called “Shock Army of the British Empire” It deals with the actions of the Canadian Corps in the last 100 days of the First World War.
By mid 1918 the Germans had deployed about 200 divisions on the western front. During the period from Aug. 8 to Nov. 11, 1918, the nine divisions which made up the Canadian and Australian Corps had engaged and defeated 86 German divisions, or more than 40% of the German forces. In the process they captured more than 60,000 PW and almost 1000 guns.
Of course most histories of the First World War all but ignore the role played by these Dominion troops.
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