Home Before the Leaves Fall: A New History of the German Invasion of 1914

The result of years of research in British, French and German archives, this is a new critical history of how close Germany came to winning the First World War in 1914.

The German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914 came close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the autumn leaves had fallen. But the German armies failed to score the knock-out blow they had planned and the war would drag on for four years of unprecedented slaughter.

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