Meuse-Argonne - The German Army in October 1918: A Discussion with Randy Gaulke

Meuse-Argonne - The German Army in October 1918: A Discussion with Randy Gaulke

Author: Mike Cunha March 5, 2023 Duration: 1:04:23

Randy Gaulke, WW1 historian and founder of Knee Deep in History Tours, returns to the podcast to talk about the state of the German Army in October 1918. 

 

Join Randy at Knee Deep Into History:

https://kneedeepintohistory.com/

 

Randy's bibliography:

 

Asprey, Robert B. The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct WW1.

 

Lengel, Edward G., Editor. A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign. Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

 

McEntee, Girard Lindsley, Col. US Army (Retired). Military History of The World War: A Complete Account of the Campaigns on all Fronts Accompanied by 456 Maps and Diagrams. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1943.

 

Moyer, Laurence. Victory Must be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914-1918. Hippocrene Books, New York.

 

United States War Office. Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), London Stamp Exchange LTD., 1989.

 

Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914 – 1918. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

Zabecki, David T. The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in the Operational Level of War.

Routledge, Oxon and New York, 2006.



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