Excerpt from The Way to Victory, Vol. 2 of 2
Looking back upon the last phase of the war, with more detachment of mind than was possible to me or to any man in the actual tumult of it, certain aspects of the military and moral situation of the armies in conflict, and of the Armistice which followed the German surrender, stand out in clearer detail through the dust and smoke and slaughter on the battlefields.
The genius of one man, taking the highest risks with cool and thoughtful courage, dominates one"s imagination in the retrospect of those days - the daring intelligence of Marshal Foch. He was fearfully handicapped by weakness of man-power immediately available as fighting units. His Army of Reserve was almost mythical in the blackest days of all when the enemy brought over all his available divisions from Russia, and struck blow after blow with enormous weight first against the British and then against the French, breaking through their defences each time and forcing them into rapid and perilous retreat. The British armies had been, as I have told previously, weakened to a tragic extent by the Battle of Flanders in 1917, when they lost 800,000 men in casualties, and then, before the German offensive in March of 1918, consented, generously and rashly, under strong political pressure from France, to take over a longer line of front.
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