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Hindenburg Line
The heavily fortified German defensive system (the Siegfriedstellung) built in the winter of 1916–17 behind the Somme battlefield. Germany withdrew to it in March 1917, shortening its front, and the Allies finally broke through it in the autumn of 1918.
Mentioned in
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §10 Romania's Gamble and Germany's New Masters
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§4 Arras, Vimy and the Chemin des Dames§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line§9 Germany's Revolution
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §1 Anatomy of a Trench System
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §4 Tanks: From Landships to Whippets