On March 21, 1918, Ludendorff launched the heaviest offensive of the war on a fifty-mile front with the intention of breaking up the thinly-held British line and sweeping it back to the sea. Forty years afterwards men who were engaged recall their memories of the fighting that followed
They include:
General Sir Hubert Gough ,
G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.,
Commander of the Fifth Army
Major-General H. Essame,
C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
Major-General F. S. C. Piggott,
C.B., D.S.O.
Major A. E. Ker. v.c.
Captain B. H. Liddell-Hart
Sir Philip Gibbs Sir Herbert Read
Guy Chapman, Wyn Griffith
Compiled and edited by Robert Pocock