The Killing Season : The Autumn Of 1914, Ypres, And The Afternoon That Cost Germany A War

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"The Marne did not spell eventual defeat for Germany. Ypres did. The First Battle of Ypres, waged in the fall of 1914, changed how wars are fought. This decisive battle denied Germany a quick victory as they failed to capture the Channel ports, ensuring World War I would carry on for years. It not only extended the war but defined it, and in novelistic prose Robert Cowley delves into the human experience of this weeks-long pitched battle that gav...

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Command of troops

Ieper (Belgium) History, Military 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Belgium Ieper

Ypres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914

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9781524756611

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Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the afternoon that cost Germany a war

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Contents:

August 20, 1914, Near Charleroi, Belgium
''The Virtuosity of Sheer Audacity"
The Man Who Willed A War
The Strength of Despair
The Antwerp Diversion
Testimony Of The Spade
Race to the Sea
Accidental Tourists
October Surprise
The Salient
Shoulder to Shoulder
Singers in the Mist
The River Redoubt
The Great Fear
''Hanging On By Our Eyelids"
One Day
The Bargeman's Solution
Dead Sea
The Gap
"Fancy Meeting You Here"
The Kaiser's Battle
The Invention of No-Man's-Land
November 17-18, 1914, Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium

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3361721

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