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 and the world. Now, for the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne. A landmark work by a distinguished scholar, The Marne, 1914 gives, for the first time, all sides of the story.
PROLOGUE: “A DRAMA NEVER SURPASSED”
Chapter 1: War: “Now or Never”
Chapter 2: “Let Slip the Dogs of War”
Chapter 3: Death in the Vosges
Chapter 4: The Bloody Road West: Liège to Louvain
Chapter 5: Deadly Deadlock: The Ardennes
Chapter 6: Squandered Climacterics
Chapter 7: To the Marne + Photo Insert
Chapter 9: Decision: The Marne