... one unit rather than separate ones. A Frenchman Ferdinand Foch was employed to take control of all the armies, now they were acting as one, they would be able to fight and resist the Germans advance more effectively. The Germans continued to advance pushing the allies right back, by July they had advanced 65km reaching the river Marne. The attack was going very well, for the second time in the war it looked as though Paris would fall. However source B comes from a British officer, who was in the battles, he says how "the Germans never really broke through" and how they "were forced back in stages. This could lead us to believe that the allies had everything under control and knew exactly what they were doing, but we must not forget that this source will most probably be biased towards the allies. By the time of the Ludendorff offensive ...

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