Myth of the Great War
A New Military History Of World War 1
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2011
400 pages
978-0-06-208411-8 (ISBN)
Description
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION The War on the Western Front
- 1 France and the Failures of National Defense, 1870-1914
- 2 Germany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics
- 3 1914: The Fall of the Forts
- 4 1914: The Battles of the Frontiers
- 5 1914: The Myth of the Marne
- 6 1914: German Offensives After the Marne
- 7 1915: The Struggle for the Buttes-The Vauquois and Les Éparges
- 8 1915: Champagne and the Woëvre
- 9 1915: The War in the Vosges
- 10 1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals
- 11 1916: Verdun, an Unfinished Victory
- 12 1916: Massacre on the Somme
- 13 1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes
- 14 1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand
- 15 1917: Caporetto and Cambrai
- 16 1917-1918: The Great Race
- 17 1918: The AEF and the End of the War
- Epilogue Pseudoreality Prevails
- INDEX
- An Essay on Sources
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
