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| Author | : Ian Senior |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2014-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472809270 |
The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914. For a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience in battle, despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force comprised just four divisions, while the French and Germans fielded 60 each. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, Invasion 1914 examines how the German invasion of France and Belgium came agonizingly close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the end of the year. Ian Senior reveals how the initial German strategy revolved around, and in part depended on, rapid victory over the French, and how the failure to achieve this resulted in the surprisingly fluid battles of the early days of the war deteriorating into the trench-based warfare which was to see the war drag on for another four years of unprecedented slaughter. Weaving together strategic analysis, diary entries, eyewitness accounts and interview transcripts from soldiers on the ground with consummate skill, this narrative is a timely investigation into the dramatic early months of the war, as the fate of Europe hung in the balance.
| Author | : Ian Senior |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2012-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780968663 |
The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914. The German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914 came close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the autumn leaves had fallen. But the German armies failed to score the knock-out blow they had planned and the war would drag on for four years of unprecedented slaughter. There are many accounts of 1914 from the British point of view, and the achievements of the British Expeditionary Force are the stuff of legend. But in reality, there were only four British divisions in the field, while the French and Germans had more than 60 each. The real story of the battle can only be told by an author with the skill to mine the extensive German and French archives. Ian Senior does this with consummate skill, weaving together strategic analysis with diary entries and interview transcripts from the soldiers on the ground to create a remarkable new history.
| Author | : Dennis Showalter |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2019-05-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476674620 |
If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals. Germany's overall failure in the first year of World War I was surprising and remains a frequent subject of analysis, mostly focused on deficiencies in strategy and policy. But there were institutional weaknesses as well. This book examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war's crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. Too much routine in planning, command and execution led to groupthink, inflexibility and to an overconfident belief that nothing could go too terribly wrong. As a result, decisive operation became dicey, with consequences that Germany's military could not overcome in four long years.
| Author | : Ian Senior |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2014-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472809262 |
The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914. For a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience in battle, despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force comprised just four divisions, while the French and Germans fielded 60 each. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, Invasion 1914 examines how the German invasion of France and Belgium came agonizingly close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the end of the year. Ian Senior reveals how the initial German strategy revolved around, and in part depended on, rapid victory over the French, and how the failure to achieve this resulted in the surprisingly fluid battles of the early days of the war deteriorating into the trench-based warfare which was to see the war drag on for another four years of unprecedented slaughter. Weaving together strategic analysis, diary entries, eyewitness accounts and interview transcripts from soldiers on the ground with consummate skill, this narrative is a timely investigation into the dramatic early months of the war, as the fate of Europe hung in the balance.
| Author | : Max Hastings |
| Publisher | : Collins |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Art and war |
| ISBN | : 9780007519743 |
In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. He finds the evidence overwhelming, that Austria and Germany must accept principal blame for the outbreak.
| Author | : Sean McMeekin |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2014-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0465038867 |
When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events. As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand's murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war's outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved -- from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré- sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand's murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen. A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe's countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain's final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month -- and a handful of men -- changed the course of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Bruno Cabanes |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2016-08-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 030022494X |
A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike. “An exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.” —Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War “This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.” —Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison “The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.” —David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
| Author | : Frank Fox |
| Publisher | : Uniform Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781910500859 |
At the start of World War I, King Albert of Belgium refused the German army safe passage through Belgium to France, a defiance that was a key moment in the beginning of the war. Albert then took command of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, and The Agony of Belgium recounts the army's bravery and resilience in the face of the challenges to come. The Agony of Belgium reveals the courageous and noble qualities of King Albert, whether at the Front as an active Commander-in-Chief; with his people during Zeppelin raids and artillery bombardments at Antwerp; declining refuge in France after the retreat from Ostend; or rallying his troops. This unique account of a part of the war often overlooked will be of significant interest to military scholars and historians.
| Author | : Christopher Clark |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2013-03-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0062199226 |
“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe’s descent into a war that tore the world apart.
| Author | : Raymond Poincaré |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2016-11-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781512302967 |
This volume is part of a series of memoirs covering the period from 1912 to the end of the Great War. Specifically, it covers events from the outbreak of war until the new year. Beginning as the German armies roll into Belgium, Raymond Poincar\'{e}, the President of the Third French Republic, tells the story of the military, political and diplomatic crises that assailed the government and almost overwhelmed the country. We see the political leadership attempt to deal with all the neglect and lack of preparation that they themselves allowed to develop, even as Germany turned herself into a military machine and challenged France time and again on the fringes of her empire and in the world of diplomacy. He gives us a glimpse into the workings of government and exposes its weaknesses. Amongst these, the fact that the political and military leadership was so distinct and separate, so formally bound by constitutional rules that, even in times of extreme national crisis, perhaps imminent death as a nation, the President and his leading ministers were both pitifully powerless to influence military events, and painfully ignorant of them as they unfolded. The German armies rampage deeper into France by the day, the allied armies fall back in the face of their massed ranks. Men die in their tens of thousands, rushing over open ground to attack in the teeth of artillery and machine gun fire. The government flees to Bordeaux. Cracks appear in the retreating lines: the allied armies are outflanked, almost overwhelmed, at the very point of defeat and disaster. The President and his ministers, almost as much in the dark as the French people, must depend on the phlegmatic and stoical leadership of General Joffre, the Commander in Chief, and the bravery of the armies. Yet, somehow, France recovers from the devastating blow to regain her poise quickly enough to win a great victory at the Marne, and drive the invaders back from Paris. We also learn of the astonishing diplomatic horse-trading of the allied nations, the naked ambitions of the great powers, the concessions demanded by neutral powers for their allegiance, the unprincipled bartering of nations and peoples as the death-struggle of Empires reaches its critical peak - the shape of future European conflicts are already emerging as early as the first months of the Great War.
