The Western Front : a history of the Great War, 1914-1918 /
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long co...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 'A vision of Attila'
- 'To the last extremity'
- 'Men of real worth'
- 'New conditions'
- 'A real bad business'
- 'Only inaction is shameful'
- 'No getting through'
- 'A place of execution'
- 'Costly and fatal toils'
- 'Hunted on all sides'
- 'The future is darker than ever'
- 'The face of a general in victory'
- 'A very serious decision'
- 'An entirely new situation'
- 'Tortured ground'
- 'Patience and tenacity'
- 'Terrible butchery'
- 'Nothing but the war'
- 'The greatest effort we have made'
- 'I fear it means disaster'
- 'Hold the line at all hazards'
- 'It will be a glorious day'
- 'Keep steady'
- 'The full measure of victory'.