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Home Before the Leaves Fall

by Ian Senior
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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.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 20, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781780968667
  • Release date: July 20, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781780968667
  • File size: 17870 KB
  • Release date: July 20, 2012

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History Military Nonfiction

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English

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.
Expand title description text
History Military Nonfiction