At last, in that grey winter of 1918, the guns in France and Flanders fell silent and an eerie stillness dwelt on the battlefields where the dead lay unburied in sodden trenches…

In Military History, there are two key components in effecting a victory. Those elements include: surprise and subtlety. Here, in this historical piece regarding the great World War, the British Victory of August 8, 1918 is explored wherein it is found as far as strategic success, history repeats itself.