Real War 1914-1918

by B. H. Liddell Hart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316525053
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	01/30/1963
Pages:	508
Sales rank:	748,626
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
I	The Origins of the War	3
II	The Opposing Forces and Plans	36
III	1914--The Clinch	54
Scene 1.	The Battle That Was Not, Yet Turned the Tide--The Marne	82
Scene 2.	The Field of Legend--Tannenberg	103
IV	1915--The Deadlock	115
Scene 1.	The Birth of a "Plan"--The Dardanelles	143
Scene 2.	The Slip 'twixt Lip and Cup--The Landing on Gallipoli, April 25, 1915	159
Scene 3.	The Gas Cloud at Ypres--April 22, 1915	175
Scene 4.	The Unwanted Battle--Loos, September 15, 1915	186
V	1916--The "Dog-Fall"	199
Scene 1.	The Mincing Machine--Verdun	214
Scene 2.	The Brusilov Offensive	224
Scene 3.	The Somme Offensive	227
Scene 4.	The Growing Pains of the Tank	249
Scene 5.	Rumania Swallowed	261
Scene 6.	The Capture of Baghdad	267
Scene 7.	The Battle of Blind Man's Buff--Jutland	271
VI	1917--The Strain	296
Scene 1.	The Halt and Lame Offensive--Arras, April 1917	321
Scene 2.	The Siege-War Masterpiece--Messines	330
Scene 3.	The "Road" to Passchendaele	337
Scene 4.	The Tank Surprise at Cambrai	344
Scene 5.	"Caporetto"	357
VII	1918--The Break	364
Scene 1.	The First Break-Through	387
Scene 2.	The Break-Through in Flanders	403
Scene 3.	The Break-Through to the Marne	411
Scene 4.	The Second Battle of the Marne, July 1918	419
Scene 5.	The "Black Day" of the German Army, August 8	429
Scene 6.	Megiddo--The Annihilation of the Turkish Armies	439
Scene 7.	The Battle of a Dream--St. Mihiel	449
Scene 8.	The Battle of a Nightmare--The Meuse-Argonne	461
	Epilogue	470
	Bibliography	477
	Index	497

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/01/2013
From 1930 and still in print, one of the earliest histories by a participant and tactician, comparing well with later scholarship. His conclusions on British failings were said to have been taken to heart by the Germans, who made changes for World War II.

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