George Herbert Fosdike Nichols served on the Western Front and wrote this vivid first-person account of the two most dramatic phases of 1918 — the German Spring Offensive that pushed the Allies back to within striking distance of Paris, and the subsequent Hundred Days Offensive that broke German resistance and ended the war. His narrative combines personal observation with tactical analysis.
Written close to the events and with the immediacy of lived experience, the book is a valuable primary source on the final year of the First World War and the physical and psychological experience of frontline soldiering.