WayneB

Think that the biggest asset the germans could have achieved would have been a victory in North Africa and the occupation of Egypt. It would have been a tangible threat to the Russian South and denied the British to have any kind of large bases in the Eastern med. Not to mention how that would have affected the Pacific War without the Suez to transfer supplies to and from the Indian/Pacific theaters.

Thanks for the tip about Jack Sheldon. Wayne

I'm reading "Three armies at the Somme", by William Phippott, gives the political an military preperation for the battle that the French and British thought would give them victory over Germany in the summer of 1916.