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14. The Battle of the Frontiers
As the war breaks out in earnest along the Western Front, French generals will be taught a bitter lesson about modern combat, paid for with the lives of thousands of their men.
IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODE.
Sources:
Doughty, Robert. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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As the war breaks out in earnest along the Western Front, French generals will be taught a bitter lesson about modern combat, paid for with the lives of thousands of their men.
IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODE.
Sources:
Doughty, Robert. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.
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