This issue of The War Illustrated (Volume 8, number 183, 16 February 1918) features an article written at a time when the Allies were 'standing-to' on the Western Front, anticipating a large-scale attack by the Germans. The author, Lovat Fraser, focuses on if, and in what form, that attack might come and puts forward the pros and cons of the various options he thinks the Germans have.

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