Commentary
In early 1917 the battle line on the Western Front of World War I was in a stalemate of bloody trench combat and Germany was in need of a breakthrough.
Engraving of the sinking of the Lusitania after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I on May 15, 1915. Public Domain
Gerry Bowler
Author
Gerry Bowler is a Canadian historian and a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
