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The myth of the Great War :

by Mosier, John,
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : HarperCollins (New York ) Physical details: xiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:0060196769 (alk. paper); 9780060196769 (alk. paper). Year: 2001
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Introduction: The War on the Western Front -- France and the Failures of National Defense, 1870-1914 -- Germany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics -- 1914: The Fall of the Forts -- 1914: The Battles of the Frontiers -- 1914: The Myth of the Marne -- 1914: German Offensives After the Marne -- 1915: The Struggle for the Buttes--The Vauquois and Les Eparges -- 1915: Champagne and the Woevre -- 1915: The War in the Vosges -- 1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals -- 1916: Verdun, An Unfinished Victory -- 1916: Massacre on the Somme -- 1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes -- 1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand -- 1917: Caporetto and Cambrai -- 1917-1918: The Great Race -- 1918: The AEF and the End of the War -- Epilogue: Pseudoreality Prevails.

A controversial new history of World War I argues that the Germans beat the French and British, who were rescued by American intervention in 1918.