...culminating point of the crisis. in The fifth act of the great drama in Flanders opened on October 22. Enormous masses of ammunition, such as the human mind...mere unspeakable suffering. And through this world cf mud the attackers dragged themselves, slowly but steadily, and in dense masses. Caught in the advanced...

...pushing an attack. Ludendorff paints the picture from the German side: "The horror of the shell hole area of Verdun was surpassed. It was no longer life...themselves, slowly but steadily, and in dense masses. Caught in the advanced zone of our hail of fire they often collapsed, and the lonely man in the shell...

...opportunity to bring up reinforcements." The enemy view of the conditions is given by Ludendorff : " Enormous masses of ammunition, such as the human mind had never imagined before the war, was hurled upon the bodies of men who passed a miserable existence scattered about in mud-filled shell-holes....

...concrete " pill box " defences until, to quote General Ludendorff, " the horror of the shell hole area at Verdun was surpassed. It was no longer life at all. It was mere unspeakable suffering ". Realizing the suffering and being aware that the territory captured failed to pay for the cost,...

...judgment. He writes : The fifth act of the Great Advance in Flanders opened on the 22nd of October. The horror of the shell-hole area of Verdun was surpassed....longer life at all, it was mere unspeakable suffering ... it must bo admitted that certain units no longer triumphed over the demoralising effects of the...

...Germany's spring offensive of 1918, was more brutal in his assessment ofthat Third Battle of Ypres. It was no longer life at all. It was mere unspeakable suffering . . . Rifles and machine guns were jammed with mud . . . Despair was creeping into the rank and file....