How would the main characters in the great war be described, for there are millions of these characters and millions of stories. How could all be described at once. I think starting at the top with the Generel's and the big battles would be a good way of doing it. Lets talk about something interesting, like the Kaiserschlacht campaign. March 31, 1918, Generel Ludendorff begins his hurricane bombardment campaign with one million shells raining down on the British in less than five hours. For them it felt like a perpetual earthquake. Regardless, the British being battered and outgunned, fled the hurricane bombardment by retreating to the town of Mont-Saint Quentin. They held there and lost hundreds of brave men, but still no end to the endless waves of Germans eroding away at the British defensive, the British where forced to fall back to the city of Amiens, which was the Germans actual objective. The city of Amiens was a large railway hub, and controlling it meant controlling a major amount of shipments into and out of the British empire, making it imperative for the Germans to seize control. Generel Richard Butler of the British army made a tough decision here. He decided to hold Amiens to the very last man. This was daunting because a total of twenty A7V German tanks where approaching from Mont-Saint Quentin. These tanks where the Kaiser's finest. They where crewed by twenty men, had six Maxim guns mounted all around the sides, and back, and a field gun mounted on the front, and thirty millimeter armor on all sides. This tank was the ideal war machine for destroying whatt was left of the British remaining in Ameins. April 8, 1918, Ludendorff orders the invasion of Ameins. The tanks go first, removing British field guns and infantry, followed by wave after wave of a total of more than six thousand German infantry backing up the tanks. However Generel Butler had thought ahead. He had his men place AT mines all along the borders of Amiens, which disabled most of the A7V tanks before they even got close. The remaining A7V tanks where destroyed by field guns on their way into Amiens. The German soldiers came next. They went into the city, but where mostly all killed by the sheer resolve of the British's urge to hold their railway. After hours of non stop fighting, the maps not even changing, Generel Ludendorff finds it most wise to call off the attack and retread back to Mont-Saint Quentin. More than 27,000 people died in this battle. The British had won the day and changed the outcome of the war.