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The World At War 1917 - Week 128

Jan 5, 201710m

This war was supposed to be over by Christmas 1914. Now, as 1917 dawned, the world still knew 10 active theatres of war around the globe: Western Front, Italian Front, Eastern Front, Macedonian Front, Caucasus Front, Persian Front, Libyan Front, Palestine, Mesopotamia and German East Africa - and still there was no end in sight, no quick victory to be had for any side.

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The World At War 1917 - Week 128

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The World At War 1917 - Week 128

No Peace For The Wicked - Week 129

Fighting on Alpine Peaks - Call for Self Determination - Week 130

Nivelle's Spring Offensive - Royal Conspiracy In Greece - Week 131

Germany Resumes Unrestricted Submarine Warfare - Week 132

Bulgaria Digs In At Doiran - The Final Blow Against The Senussi - Week 133

Russian Bombing On The Eastern Front - US Prisoners of War - Week 134

Mechanised War In Mesopotamia - Toplica Uprising - Week 135

Conrad Loses His Job - Nivelle's Coup - Week 136

The Russian February Revolution 1917 - Week 137

The Tsar Abdicates - Baghdad Falls - Week 138

Kaiser Karl Wants Peace - The Sixtus Affair - Week 139

Lenin Wants To Take The Train - First Battle of Gaza I THE GREAT WAR Week 140

The United States Declares War on Germany - Week 141

The Canadian Corps Takes Vimy Ridge - The Battle of Arras - Week 142

The Nivelle Offensive - Carnage At The Chemin Des Dames - Week 143

The Battle of Doiran - Turmoil In The French Army - Week 144

The Battle of Arleux - Robert Nivelle Gets Fired - Week 145

The Macedonian Standoff - The Five Nation Army Is Repelled - Week 146

Tenth Battle of The Isonzo River - Trotsky Arrives in Petrograd - Week 147

German Bombers Over Britain - Arab Revolt On The Advance - Week 148

French Mutinies - Tunnels Under Messines Ridge - Week 149

The Battle of Messines - Explosion Beneath Hill 60 - Week 150

Italian Mountain Warfare - The Espionage Act - Week 151

The Disillusionment of Lawrence of Arabia - Week 152

Russia's New Offensive - The Russian Women's Battalion of Death - Week 153

Turmoil In The Reichstag - The Kerensky Offensive - Week 154

Operation Beach Party - Mustard Gas Unleashed - Week 155

July Days In Petrograd - Blood On The Nevsky Prospect - Week 156

Three Years of World War 1 - Week 157

The Battle of Passchendaele - Mutiny in the German Navy - Week 158

Despair Everywhere - Week 159

The Battle of Hill 70 - Mackensen Advances in Romania - Week 160

The 2nd Battle Of Verdun - Lost Opportunities On The Isonzo River - Week 161

The Moscow State Conference - Black Sea Revolutionaries - Week 162

The Fall of Riga - 11th Battle of the Isonzo River - Week 163

Attempted Military Coup in Russia - The Kornilov Affair - 164

British Advance At Passchendaele - Week 165

Battle of Polygon Wood - Betrayal At The Italian Front - Week 166

Sabotage In The Desert - Battle of Broodseinde - Week 167

Operation Albion - Passchendaele Drowns In Mud - Week 168

Operation Albion Concludes - Allied Failures In Belgium - Week 169

The Battle of La Malmaison - Breakthrough at Caporetto - Week 170

Battle of Beersheba - Canadian Frustration - Balfour Declaration - Week 171

The Russian October Revolution 1917 - Week 172

The End Of Passchendaele - Fighting in Petrograd - Week 173

Tank Corps Unleashed - The Battle of Cambrai - Week 174

All Quiet On The Eastern Front - Action in East Africa - Week 175

Halifax Explosion - Peace in the East? - Week 176

Jerusalem Surrenders - Bolsheviks Consolidate Control - Week 177

The Armistice of Brest-Litovsk - Week 178

Ludendorff Plans for a Spring Offensive - Week 179