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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: | Barbara W Tuchman |
| ISBN: | 034538623X 9780345386236 0553254014 9780553254013 0553139592 9780553139594 |
| OCLC Number: | 516422393 |
| Description: | 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 1. A funeral -- Plans -- 2. "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" -- 3. The shadow of sedan -- 4. "A single British soldier" -- 5. The Russian steam roller -- Outbreak -- 6. August 1 : Berlin -- 7. August 1 : Paris and London -- 8. Ultimatum in Brussels -- 9. "Home before the leaves fall" -- Battle -- 10. Goeben...an enemy then flying -- 11. Lié̀ge and alsace -- 12. BEF to the continent -- 13. Sambre et meuse -- 14. Debacle : Lorraine Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons -- 15. "The cossacks are coming!" -- 16. Tannenberg -- 17. The flames of Louvain -- 18. Blue water, blockade and the great neutral -- 19. Retreat -- 20. The front is Paris -- 21. Von Kluck's turn -- 22. "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" -- 23. Afterward. |
| Responsibility: | by Barbara W. Tuchman. |
Abstract:
The shock of opening clash in August, 1914, and the thirty days of batle which followed determined the future course of the First World War and the shape of nations in our time.
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