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  • French Generals of the Great War

    Leading the Way

    Who were the senior generals who took France through the First World War, and why do we know so little about them? They commanded the largest force on the Western Front through both humiliating defeats and forgotten victories; they won international respect and adoration, but also led their army to infamous mutiny. Nevertheless, the French and their allies, under a French General in Chief, would ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of the Somme

    The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.Published to coincide with the centenary commemoration of the battle of the Somme, this study comprises 12 separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of whom looks at a specific aspect of the battle.The terrors of the Somme have largely come to embody trench warfare on ... Leer más

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  • Early Trench Tactics in the French Army

    The Second Battle of Artois, May-June 1915

    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    In the English-speaking world the First World War is all too often portrayed primarily as a conflict between Britain and Germany. The vast majority of books focus on the Anglo-German struggle, and ignore the dominant part played by the French, who for most of the war provided the bulk of the soldiers fighting against the central powers. As such, this important and timely book joins the small but ... Leer más

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  • The Myth of the Great War

    A New Military History of World War I

    de John Mosier ...
    "A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history" ( Kirkus Reviews )"There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative." —Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of WarBased on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Wester... ... Leer más

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  • Waterloo

    The French Perspective

    From the author of Talavera, an extensive history of the Battle of Waterloo from the losing side's point of view.The story of the Battle of Waterloo—of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Blücher, and their allied armies—is most often told from the viewpoint of the victors, not the vanquished. Even after 200 years of intensive research and the publication of ... Leer más

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  • Verdun

    The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I

    de John Mosier ...
    Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history’s greatest clashes. Perfect for military history buffs, this compelling account of one of World War I’s most important battles explains why it is also the most complex and misunderstood.Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of ... Leer más

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  • Sedan 1870

    The Eclipse of France

    A historian analyzes the Franco-Prussian War's Battle of Sedan, from its causes and effects, to the characters involved.The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war. For the Germans, their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the ... Leer más

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  • Case Red

    The Collapse of France

    Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940.Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then ... Leer más

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  • Home Before the Leaves Fall

    A New History of the German Invasion of 1914

    de Ian Senior ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • France at Bay, 1870–1871

    The Struggle for Paris

    The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing months, and resolved itself into a contest for Paris—for while Paris held out, France was undefeated. The story of this dramatic final phase of the war ... Leer más

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  • The Blood of Free Men

    The Liberation of Paris, 1944

    As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe -- sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino -- were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Meetings in No Man's Land

    Christmas 1914 and Fraternisation in the Great War

    The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle of attrition in which young men faced each other across what was often only a few yards of the muddy, ... Leer más

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