In this, amazingly the first account in English of its subject, US soldier and military historian Terence Zuber describes the Great War’s decisive opening action - the great Franco-German ‘battle of the frontiers’ in August 1914. He concludes that the battles - traditionally seen as a hopeless massacre of the French - could easily have gone the other way.

It is an astonishing fact that this is the first history written in English of one of the most decisive series of battles that determined the course of the Great War - the bloody ‘battle of the frontiers’ between France and Germany fought in the war’s opening weeks in August 1914. Retired US Army officer turned serious military historian Terence Zuber blows the dust off this woefully neglected and crucially important action in a book that belongs on the shelves of all Great War buffs - since this truly is ground-breaking research that alters our view of military history. Zuber - who in an earlier book showed that there was no single Schlieffen Plan, but rather a series of evolving schemes - here tells what happened when those German war games were put into bloody effect. After intensive research in both German and French archives, Zuber concludes that the traditional view of these pivotal battles on France’s eastern borders is wrong. They were not simply a story of French poilus, drunk on dreams of glory and revenge, launching hopeless bayonet charges against entrenched German guns, but were hard-fought struggles that could easily have had another outcome.

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Product Code:	10880
Author:	Terence Zuber
Format:	314pp, b/w photographs, maps, hb.
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Our Price:	£25.00