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Spring Offensive, German: plans and preparations, 40–1, 42–6, 47–51; Allied anticipations, 52–57; British Army’s dispositions, 57–61; French Army’s dispositions, 61–2; question of American participation, 62–6; Allied preparations to meet, 69–74 (for the operations see St. Quentin offensive; Lys, Battle of the)
‘Stab-in-the-back’ legend, 286
Steenwerke, 119
Submarine campaign, German, 277
Tanks: penetrate German line opposite Cambrai, 5; and cavalry, conflicting conceptions, 5, 6; the first German models, 131; in the Lys battle, 131–3; the Tank Corps at Hamel, 171–3; in Second Battle of the Marne, 179, 186, 189, 207; in the Battle of Amiens, 197, 200, 202–4, 210; in St. Mihiel battle, 229; in attack on Siegfried Position, 236; number of British tank regiments in 1933, 282
A.7.V. (German), 131–2
Mark IV, 131, 132, 210
Mark V, 171, 203, 210
Schneider CA3 (French), 131
Whippet, 202
Tannenberg, 127
Tergnier, 88
Thiepval, 211
Times, The, 37
Tincourt, 91–3
Tournai, 184
Transport, Fifth Army’s problems of, 69
Traunstein, 292–3
Trenches, trench warfare, 7–9, 12–18, 220, 270
Turkey: defeated in Palestine, 246; secures armistice, 264
United States: expected intervention of, 34, 61–2; sends troops to France, 62
See also ARMY, UNITED STATES
Vaire Wood, 171–3
Valkyrie plan, 47, 59
Vaulx Wood, 87
Vaux, American attack on, 169–71
Velu, 84
Verdun, 4, 6, 31, 41–2, 283
Verdun Salient, 49, 61
Versailles, Treaty of, 280, 281; limits German armed forces, 285, 286; German infractions of, 287, 288
Versailles Council (Inter-Allied Supreme War Council), 55–6, 94, 99, 102
Vesle, River, 148, 149, 191, 232
Vienna, conditions in, 37, 39
Vierstraat, 129
Vigneulles, 230
Ville-en-Tardenois, 191
Villers-Bretonneux, 109, 143, 194, 197; captured by Germans in Battle of the Lys, 131–3; recaptured by Allies, 134
Villers-Cotterets, 153, 161
Vimy Ridge, 124, 137; held by British, 47, 59, 95; held by Canadian Corps, 114, 194
Voormezeele, 129, 130, 143
Vosges Mountains, 3, 6, 59, 61
Vraucourt, 87
War weariness, in Britain, 31, 35–6
Warneton, Australian raid on, 52–55
Weimar Republic 289
Welsh Ridge, 24–30, 60
Wemyss, Admiral Sir Rosslyn, 266
Wetzell, Lieut.-Colonel, Chief of Operations Section of German General Staff, 41, 44, 50, 110, 160, 161, 244, 245
Weygand, General, 266
Wilhelm II, German Emperor, 41, 87, 104, 150, 240–1; and the question of an armistice, 241, 249–51, 261, 263; dismisses Ludendorff, 264; clamour for his abdication, 264; in Holland, 274, 289–92; abdicates, 291
Wilson, Field-Marshal Sir Henry, C.I.G.S., 55, 124, 172, 176, 193, 287; at Doullens Conference, 97, 99, 102
Wilson, President Woodrow, 34, 65, 141, 250, 252; his Fourteen Points, 248, 254–8, 260; receives German peace overture, 254–5; replies to peace move, 254, 260–4; and the League of Nations, 275–6, 284; on causes of the War, 277–8
Winterfeldt, Major-General von, 266
Woeuvre, River, 229
Wood, Major-General Leonard, 68
Wotan Position, 214, 219, 233, 244; Canadians break through, 245
See also Drocourt–Quéant Switch
Wytschaete, 122, 123, 125, 128, 129
Wytschaete Ridge, 118, 119, 121
York, Corporal Alvine, 259–60
Ypres, 50, 104, 110, 118, 122
Ypres–Comines Canal, 114
Ypres Salient, 4, 6, 30, 50, 59, 97, 110, 118, 121, 130, 234, 236, 279
Ytres, 50