German offensives on the Western Front blocked. The cold grip of influenza. More and more Americans. Austria-Hungary’s disastrous attack across the Piave. More turmoil in Russia.
1/6/1918 Beethoven comes to Japan
1/6/1918 Roderic Dallas is promoted too late
4/6/1918 Pemberton Billing wins “Cult of the Clitoris” libel trial
4/6/1918 Trotsky: “Long Live Civil War!”
6/6/1918 US troops halt one German offensive as Ludendorff prepares another
7/6/1918 Influenza spreads its tentacles
8/6/1918 The Komuch: an anti-Bolshevik government in Siberia, supported by the Czechoslovaks
9/6/1918 Round four: Ludendorff unleashes Operation Gneisenau
10/6/1918 Austria-Hungary’s failed naval breakout
10/6/1918 Vorontsovka: Germany and Turkey come to blows
11/6/1918 French counterattack blocks Germany’s latest offensive
13/6/1918 An inconvenient Grand Duke meets his end
15/6/1918 Austria-Hungary attacks across the Piave
16/6/1918 Failure on the Piave for Austria-Hungary
17/6/1918 Ludendorff prepares for Round Five
19/6/1918 Italy strikes back on the Piave river
19/6/1918 Francesco Baracca’s last patrol over the Piave
20/6/1918 Arthur Griffith wins East Cavan…
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