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The struggle for peace amid the 1918 war carnage
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April 1918 began on Easter Monday, 12 days into the German offensive on the Western Front. Twelve days of mass slaughter on both sides.
Militarily, the British sector, having been pushed back above the join with the French army some 40 miles across a long sector, had stabilised.
The longer-term aims of the rulers of Germany and Britain remained hidden from most people.
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