Long out of print, this is the account of what many regard as the decisive military campaign of the Great War - and, indeed, of the whole 20th century. - by the German general who fought and lost it.Alexander von Kluck was a fire-eating commander of great ability and dash. He was given the crucial role in 1914 of commanding the German First Army, the 'fist' of the famous Schlieffen Plan to knock out France in a lightning six-week campaign. Kluck's mission was to march through Belgium ( bringing Britain into the war), drive through north-east France and scoop up Paris, thus trapping the main...
Long out of print, this is the account of what many regard as the decisive military campaign of the Great War - and, indeed, of the whole 20th century...
