World War Civ episode 44: The Agony of the Allies

It's 1917. The French are suffering mutinies and the Entente is desperate for a breakthrough anywhere. It's not to be. Arras, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Cambrai, and Caporetto - hundreds of thousands of men killed and no breakthrough. At the end of the year, the Germans have reason to believe they could win the whole war in the West if they could conclude a peace with the newly Bolshevik Russia...