History of War

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Source:   German storm troops advancing  

The German army’s ‘storm troop’ tactics, which proved so effective in March 1918, are often represented as an innovation that broke the Western Front trench stalemate that had existed since the end of 1914. In fact, it was the scale on which these tactics were applied rather than the method

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