The Story of the Great War, Volume 7 American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive.

The opening of this volume plunges listeners straight into the mud‑slicked battlefields of Flanders in August 1917. Field Marshal Haig’s night counter‑attack against the Germans near Ypres is rendered with striking detail—the rain turning the ground into a morass, artillery roaring, and British infantry clawing back three hundred yards of lost trench. Amid the gloom, daring pilots scour the sky, dropping bombs on enemy aerodromes and downing six German machines, while the relentless shell fire leaves the opposing troops in disarray.

Beyond the front line, the narrative widens to show how Canadian units pressed forward near Lens, tightening the British line and pushing the Germans back under a brief spell of clear weather. French forces, too, are caught in fierce night assaults that end in costly failures for the enemy. This crisp, first‑hand chronicle captures the immediacy of trench warfare, the roar of artillery, and the human grit that defined the Western Front during one of the war’s most turbulent months.