Review of With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
… Russia brought the Bolsheviks to power, resulting in a ceasefire with the Germans. Observers questioned how the Allies … heavy artillery, gunnery, introduction of counter battery fire, and the creeping barrage which devastated German … conclusion. He traces Germany's decision to seek a ceasefire on Woodrow Wilson's terms to the fateful day of …