The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans Kansas City and with limited service on

and with limited service on the Western Front

edited by Christopher Kelly

Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever since

Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed

the context of his war in the desert

The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans Kansas City and with limited service onDescription 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