The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War

ISBN-13: 9781400068524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 336 str.

Robert Cowley

Opis

The month-long First Battle of Ypres was one of the most important confrontations of World War I, and the most disastrous for Germany: their defeat at Ypres cost them the war. This in-depth narrative puts the forgotten heroes and the tragedy of battle front and center, and questions long-accepted conclusions about the impact that Ypres had on WWI.

The First Battle of Ypres changed how wars are fought.
Ypres was the staging ground for the slow realization that bullets, rather than bayonets, would be the weapon of the future. It gave birth to "no man's land," that spectral space of shattered trees and pockmarked earth: battleground where thousands of men fought to gain 30 feet of territory--only to lose it again the next day. Ypres was where the commanding officers of both sides--many of whom knew about war only through studying it in a classroom--realized that the combination of grand cavalry maneuvers and gallant charges with 20th century weapons was a fatal, losing one.
Weaving together a wide array of source materials, Robert Cowley has written an enthralling and engrossing portrait of a key battle and the 9 million men who fought it.