We want to marry before the spring offensive begins, Michael went on.

The next few weeks will be especially telling because insurgents are expected to mount a spring offensive.

"Have bought a new lawnmower ready for the spring offensive," he wrote to a friend in 1981.

You cannot help thinking that both sides have simply used the break in the negotiations to arm themselves for the forthcoming spring offensive.

It then went on to break out of 8th Army's bridgehead with the second wave in the spring offensive.

The request comes in advance of what is expected to be a spring offensive by forces linked to the Taliban.

From Afghanistan come reports that armed bands are being formed for a spring offensive.

Kharkov (1943); from the German spring offensive to the end of the war.

Lithuanian special forces were sent south to help the British forces in their spring offensive.

But on April 22, some 250,000 Chinese soldiers struck across a 40-mile front to begin their spring offensive.