Fingers of Fate: tightening grip on Kaiser Wilhelm by King George V of Great Britain, Wilson of the United States, King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, President Poincare of France, King Albert of Belgium, Emperor Taishō of Japan. Russia is conspicuously absent dating the postcard after the Bolshevik seizure of power and cease fire on the eastern front.

Fingers of Fate

"The Tightening Grip"

British Empire, U.S.A., Italy, France, Belgium, Japan

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Saturday, August 10, 1918

"I see that we must strike a balance. We are at the end of our reserves. The war must be ended."

Quotation Context

German Kaiser Wilhelm II on August 10, 1918, two days after the devastating Allied advance in the Battle of Amiens. His Commander, Erich Ludendorff, who was thought be some of his staff to be on the verge of nervous collapse, would refer to the 8th as 'the black day of the German Army.'

Source

World War I in Outline by B.H. Liddell Hart, page 255, publisher: Westholme Publishing (originally Faber and Faber), publication date: 2012 (originally 1936)

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Kaiser Wilhelm, Wilhelm II, 1918-08-10, black day, Ludendorff, Fingers of Fate