It is the second week of September, one-hundred-eleven years ago.

Five weeks have passed since Germany declared war on Russia and France and invaded neutral Belgium.

The Germans are following a plan which, if successful, will enable them to parade down the Champs-Élysées in forty days.

The plan calls for the German army to swing north and west through Belgium, then bear down on Paris to the south.

With a quick conquest of France, Germany will then be able to concentrate its forces on Russia before it can fully mobilize.

And as the plan unfolded, Germany had battlefield success...

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