This is a reprint of the classic 1919 Book by the Michelin Company. It is in an 8 ½ x 11 staple bound format with 60 Pages.

The First World War touched the lives of many thousands of people at the time around the world, both on the fighting fronts and on the home front. Many people from France, Belgium, the United States, and the Great Britain wanted to journey to the battle fields to see, and experience, where their beloved soldiers had seen and sacrificed so much.

Michelin came up with the idea of providing tours of the battlefields along with complimentary souvenir history books on the battle and of the tour. Provides fascinating insight into the battle, the towns, and the region before and after the battle.

A great read!

This is book is for the battle of Amiens, otherwise known as the Battle of Piccadilly, and covers from 1914 to 1918.

The battle for the liberation of Amiens began in dense fog at 4:20 am on 8 August 1918. Under Rawlinson's Fourth Army, the British III Corps attacked north of the Somme, the Australian Corps to the south of the river in the centre of Fourth Army's front, and the Canadian Corps to the south of the Australians. The French 1st Army under General Debeney opened its preliminary bombardment at the same time, and began its advance 45 minutes later, supported by a battalion of 72 Whippet tanks.  Although German forces were on the alert, this was largely in anticipation of possible retaliation for their incursion on the sixth and not because they had learned of the preplanned Allied attack. Although the two forces were within 460 metres (500 yd) of one another, gas bombardment was very low, as the bulk of the Allied presence was unknown to the Germans. The attack was so unexpected that German forces only began to return fire after five minutes, and even then at the positions where the Allied forces had assembled at the start of the battle and had long since left.

In the first phase, seven divisions attacked: the British 18th Eastern and 58th London, the Australian 2nd and 3rd, and the Canadian 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions. Parts of the American 33rd Division supported the British attackers north of the Somme.

The attackers captured the first German position, advancing about 3.7 km (4,000 yd; 2.3 mi) by about 7:30 am. In the centre, supporting units following the leading divisions attacked the second objective a further 3.2 km (2.0 mi) distant. Australian units reached their first objectives by 7:10 am, and by 8:20 am, the Australian 4th and 5th Divisions and the Canadian 4th Division passed through the initial breach in the German lines.  The third phase of the attack was assigned to infantry-carrying Mark V tanks; however, the infantry was able to carry out this final step unaided.] The Allies penetrated well to the rear of the German defences and cavalry now continued the advance, one brigade in the Australian sector and two cavalry divisions in the Canadian sector.  Aircraft fire by the new RAF and armored car fire kept the retreating Germans from rallying…………