 After this disaster, German General Ludendorff called off a planned German offensive further north in the Flanders region stretching between France and Belgium, which he had envisioned as Germany's best hope of victory. In the end, the Second Battle of the Marne marked the last large-scale German offensive of World War I. And on 18 July 1925, seven months after being released from prison, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler published the first volume of his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf.