xii pages, 2 leaves, [3]-508 pages 23 cm
"Captain B.H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In "The Real War," the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brilliance with brevity and precision. Thus we have in one volume the war transformed into literature - an understandable, kaleidoscopic masterwork of military history."--Amazon
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-495)
The origins of the war -- The oposing forces and plans -- 1914 : the clinch: The battle that was not, yet turned the tide : the Marne ; The field of legend : Tannenberg -- 1915 : the deadlock: The birth of a "plan" : the Dardanelles ; The slip 'twixt lip and cup : the landing on Gallipoli, April 25, 1915 ; The gas cloud ay Ypres : April 22, 1915 ; The unwanted battle : Loos, September 15, 1915 -- 1916 : the "dog-fall": The mincing machine : Verdun ; The Brusilov Offensive ; The Somme Offensive ; The growing pains of the tank ; Rumania swallowed ; The capture of Baghdad ; The battle of blind man's buff : Jutland -- 1917 : the strain: The halt and lame offensive : Arras, April 1917 ; The siege-war masterpiece : Messines ; The "road" to Passchendaele ; The tank surprise at Cambrai ; "Caporetto" -- 1918 : the break: The first break-through ; The break-through in Flanders ; The break-through to the Marne ; The Second Battle of the Marne, July 1918 ; The "black day" of the German Army, August 8 ; Megiddo : the annihilation of the Turkish Armies ; The battle of a dream : St. Mihiel ; The battle of a nightmare : the Meuse-Argonne -- Epilogue

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970

Boston, Little, Brown and Co.

Volume 0, 1930

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Bibliography: p. [477]-495.

2023-06-28