Description |
xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: The War on the Western Front -- France and the Failures of National Defense, 1870-1914 -- Germany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics -- 1914: The Fall of the Forts -- 1914: The Battles of the Frontiers -- 1914: The Myth of the Marne -- 1914: German Offensives After the Marne -- 1915: The Struggle for the Buttes--The Vauquois and Les Eparges -- 1915: Champagne and the Woevre -- 1915: The War in the Vosges -- 1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals -- 1916: Verdun, An Unfinished Victory -- 1916: Massacre on the Somme -- 1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes -- 1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand -- 1917: Caporetto and Cambrai -- 1917-1918: The Great Race -- 1918: The AEF and the End of the War -- Epilogue: Pseudoreality Prevails. |
Summary |
A controversial new history of World War I argues that the Germans beat the French and British, who were rescued by American intervention in 1918. |
Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns.
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ISBN |
0060196769 (alk. paper) |
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9780060196769 (alk. paper) |
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