The Germans did their best along the western front. Everything considered, their best was goodand the weather helped them out by being thoroughly bad. The Germans struck smartly, swiftly, skillfully, sometimes recklessly to buy a little more time, stalemate the front until winter comes.
For two weeks the Germans had achieved stalemateof a kind. Pressed back by the contracting geometry of strategy to a greatly narrowed area of action (see map), they could and did mass some of the largest concentrations of guns yet seen in the west. Behind their West Wall...
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