With no tanks and artillery batteries short of both men and cannons, the Germans had no chance of success. In 1918 the German Supreme Army Command still believed that infantry was centric to success. Planning/Background: Following the Battle of Le Hamel, which shook the German Army to its core, the Allies had one month to plan the attack for which Le Hamel was the test for – a multi-pronged major attack along the German line using the new concept of combined arms.
The Battle of Amiens involved British, Canadian, Australian and French divisions simultaneously attacking the thinly stretched and understrength German 2nd and 18th Armies. Amiens saw combined arms used on an even larger scale, with General Monash as one of the orchestrators and planners of the assault.
The Battle of Amiens occurred over several days, one month after the decisive Allied victory at Le Hamel, which saw the first use of Australian General Monash’s concept of 'combined arms', in which infantry, tanks and aircraft worked together simultaneously to achieve a shared goal. Introduction: The Battle of Amiens was an Allied four-pronged, three stage attack on the defensive lines of the German Army focused around the then town, now city, of Amiens. To the best of my knowledge and ability, I have left my own personal comments until the results and lessons learnt sections. As General Ludendorff remembers the battle, 'the black day of the German Army'. Major Thilo Von Bose credits the Battle of Amiens as a key factor towards the armistice request from Germany, ending the war. During the battle, Major Von Bose was a Captain however, throughout this analysis I will refer to him as Major as this was his rank at the time of writing and at the time of his retirement from the army. Personal attacks against German commanders and the German Supreme Army Command are the words and beliefs of Major Von Bose, and his alone.
My operational analysis will cover the background and situation prior, the planning, the execution and results, and the lessons learnt from the Battle of Amiens. Based entirely from the book 'The Catastrophe' written by German officer Thilo Von Bose who fought in the battle no other resources or references have been used to ensure purity and accuracy towards the authors account without outside interference. This an operational analysis on the Battle of Amiens in World War 1 from the German perspective.
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