The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
by Robert Cowley
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An in-depth, authoritative account of the First Battle of Ypres, an early turning point in World War I that irrevocably changed the course of modern warfare?by the founding editor of Military History QuarterlyThe Marne may have saved Paris and prevented a humiliating defeat for the Allies, but it did not spell eventual defeat for Germany. Ypres did.The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest interval in a famously bloody war, truly a killing season. They ended in the First Battle of Ypres, a struggle whose importance has been too long overlooked, until now. Robert Cowley?s fresh, novelistic account of this crucial period describes how German armies in France were poised to sweep north to capture the Channel ports and knock England out of the war. Would France then be next? What changed everything, and what the Germans did not count on, was a brilliant surprise improvisation by a cobbled-together handful of British troops. It was a demonstration characterized as ?the strength of
