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100 1 $aMosier, John,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00042070
245 14 $aThe myth of the Great War :$ba new military history of World War I /$cJohn Mosier.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axiv, 381 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-366) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The War on the Western Front --$g1.$tFrance and the Failures of National Defense, 1870-1914 --$g2.$tGermany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics --$g3.$t1914: The Fall of the Forts --$g4.$t1914: The Battles of the Frontiers --$g5.$t1914: The Myth of the Marne --$g6.$t1914: German Offensives After the Marne --$g7.$t1915: The Struggle for the Buttes - The Vauquois and Les Eparges --$g8.$t1915: Champagne and the Woevre --$g9.$t1915: The War in the Vosges --$g10.$t1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals --$g11.$t1916: Verdun, An Unfinished Victory --$g12.$t1916: Massacre on the Somme --$g13.$t1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes --$g14.$t1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand --$g15.$t1917: Caporetto and Cambrai --$g16.$t1917-1918: The Great Race --$g17.$t1918: The AEF and the End of the War --$tEpilogue: Pseudoreality Prevails.
520 1 $a"Based on a decade of research into previously unused French and German sources, The Myth of the Great War shows what actually happened at the front as the participants perceived it at the time, as opposed to what French and British commanders and governments claimed. John Mosier, who visited all the major battlefields, describes and analyzes campaigns that are routinely neglected or ignored and shows why conventional accounts of such major battles as Verdun are incorrect.
520 8 $aHe explains how German tactics, weapons, training and leadership were consistently superior, and why the endless, ineffective attacks of the French and British with inferior weapons and battle tactics of the previous century resulted in mindless slaughter and defeat. Mosier also discusses the major military leaders on both sides - including Joffre, Petain, Foch, Gallieni, French, Haig, Wilson, Moltke, Ludendorff, Falkenhayn, Mudra, and Pershing.".
520 8 $a"The French and British military controlled, suppressed, and manipulated all battlefield reports. German losses were magnified; failures became successes, defeats victories. Allied intelligence was grossly inaccurate and inadequate, and the result was a distorted picture of what was really happening. Absorbing and persuasive, The Myth of the Great War is a striking new assessment of the military realities of World War I."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148240
852 00 $bglx$hD521$i.M86 2001