How Germany lost the WWI arms race

A new, mostly female workforce populated the factories of UK and France to solve a shell crisis that had threatened to defeat the Allies in World War I. History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

All the energy he expends getting his men to the front line fit and healthy counts for nothing if they don’t have the right equipment.

What they need, above all, is sufficient ammunition - yet there were moments during the war when a shortage of artillery shells meant the guns almost fell silent.

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