FIRST WORLD WAR DIARYJANUARY 1917 WORLD MAP

JANUARY 1917: The first month of the fourth year of a great war where seemingly no end was near. Now in control of nearly all aspects of state, German High command gambles their international position and the response of the United States by ordering the resumption of an unrestricted U-boat campaign. The British gain in their attempt to retake Kut, while the English coast is struck once again out of the fog of the North Sea.