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The marne, 1914 - the opening of world war I and the battle that changed the world

✍ Scribed by Holger H. Herwig

Publisher: Random House
Year: 2009
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, France.
ISBN: 1588369099

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✦ Synopsis

It is one of the essential events of military history, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars. This is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, giving, for the first time, all sides of the story. Military historian Holger H. Herwig reinterprets Germany's aggressive Schlieffen Plan as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He also provides cameos of the important players. In remarkable detail, and with exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle, revealing how the uncoordinated German forces were foiled and years of brutal trench warfare were made inevitable.--From publisher description.

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