Allied Commanders Henri Philippe Pétain, Douglas Haig, Ferdinand Foch, and John J. Pershing. Foch was Allied Commander in Chief, the other men commanders of the French Army, the British Expeditionary Force, and the American Expeditionary Force respectively. From The Memoirs of Marshall Foch by Marshall Foch.
Commanders of the Allies in 1918 and their autographs.Pétain Haig Foch Pershing
"The usual statement on the position of the enemy was made by my Intelligence Officer (Cox). He gave reasons why we think the enemy is preparing to attack on the fronts of our Third and Fifth Armies. I emphasized the necessity for being ready as soon as possible to meet a big hostile offensive of prolonged duration. I also told Army Commanders that I was very pleased at all I had seen on the fronts of the three Armies which I had recently visited. Plans were sound and thorough, and much work had already been done. I was only afraid that the enemy would find our front so very strong that he will hesitate to commit his Army to the attack with the almost certainty of losing very heavily."
Excerpt from the diary of General Douglas Haig, commander of British forces on the Western Front. Although the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers had broken down, and Germany had resumed the war and its advance into Russia, the Allies expected a massive German offensive in the west bolstered by soldiers redeployed from the east.
1918, the Last Act by Barrie Pitt, page 57, copyright © 1962 by Barrie Pitt, publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc., publication date: 1963
1918-03-02, 1918, March, Haig and Tamagnini, Haig, Tamagnini, Douglas Haig
