HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Economic Warfare, Central Powers, Industrial Revolution
8 Dec 2016
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The modernity of the first world war part 3. While frontal assaults on prepared trench fortifications were inevitably blood baths, in key battles, most particularly the final hundred days of the war when the british and french, with. American assistance, carried all before them, the defenders suffered greater casualties than the attackers. Germany deliberately attacked the french fortress of verdun in 1916 because they knew. French pride would make them defend it to the last man. This was a deliberate, grinding war of attrition in which both sides hoped to bleed their opponents of men before their own armies were wasted. The generals have ever since been damned for their obsession with attacked and the scale of death and misery was both staggering and inhumane. Here was the real dilemma of modern industrialized war; both sides relentlessly propagandized the justness of their case and demonized their enemies.
