Lost Opportunity: The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

On 22 August 1914, on a battlefield one hundred kilometers wide, stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse, two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day 27,000 young French soldiers died, the bloodiest day in the military history of France, most of them in the Ardennes, and yet it is almost unknown to English—speaking readers. There has never been an operational study of the Battle of the Ardennes, in an...