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Walking the Retreat: The March to the Marne: 1914 Revisited
Terry Cudbird
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Paperback. Recreates the retreat from southern Belgium to the Marne during the opening month of the Great War Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBWN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
The opening month of the Great War ending in the Battle of the Marne (6-9 September 1914) was a turning point in modern history. The French and British armies were forced into a long retreat from Belgium but subsequently regrouped to mount a successful counter-attack. However, the miracle of the Marne, as it was later called, ended in the stalemate of the trenches. The failure of the Imperial German Army to achieve a decisive victory led to thirty years of hostility, warfare and destruction, which cost millions of lives. During the retreat to the Marne over a million soldiers ... Read more
The opening month of the Great War ending in the Battle of the Marne (6-9 September 1914) was a turning point in modern history. The French and British armies were forced into a long retreat from Belgium but subsequently regrouped to mount a successful counter-attack. However, the miracle of the Marne, as it was later called, ended in the stalemate of the trenches. The failure of the Imperial German Army to achieve a decisive victory led to thirty years of hostility, warfare and destruction, which cost millions of lives. During the retreat to the Marne over a million soldiers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930025
SKU
V9781909930025
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99-50
About Terry Cudbird
TERRY CUDBIRD read history at Cambridge and subsequently studied French history at University College London and in France. His first book Walking the Hexagon, describing a 4,000-mile walk around France, was published by Signal in 2012.
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