Robert Cowley: The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War, Gebunden

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"The First Battle of Ypres, waged in the fall of 1914, changed how wars are fought. This decisive battle denied Germany a quick victory as they failed to capture the Channel ports, ensuring World War I would carry on for years. It not only extended the war but defined it, and in novelistic prose Robert Cowley delves into the human experience of this weeks-long pitched battle that gave birth to 'no man's land,' that spectral space of shattered trees and pockmarked earth: battlegrounds where thousands of men fought to gain thirty feet of territory--only to lose it again the next day. As battle lines became entrenched, Cowley reveals a crucial, overlooked 'What if?' of history: the afternoon when the Germans hesitated to attack the depleted British forces and lost their best chance of winning the Western Front"