| Edition |
First Perennial edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index. |
| Summary |
Argues that, during the First World War, the French and British military issued false battlefield reports, hiding the truth that the Germans defeated the Allies consistently throughout the war, and that the Americans thus saved the Allies from ultimate defeat. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns.
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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| Chronological Term |
1914-1918
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Geschichte.
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| ISBN |
9780060084332 (paperback) |
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0060084332 (paperback) |
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9780060196769 (hardcover) |
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0060196769 (hardcover) |
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