The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans

The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the GermansDescription By Ian Sumner Paperback Osprey's study of the Battle of the Marne, which was one of the decisive encounters of World War I (1914 1918), saving France from a catastrophic defeat that would almost certainly have knocked her out of the war. Germany's failure to defeat the French committed her to a war on two fronts, which would lead to trench warfare and the war of attrition that the General Staff had hoped to avoid. The conduct of the battle

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and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history

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Packed with firsthand accounts and detailed information from the USMC History Division at Quantico and published to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of America's involvement in World War I

capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future