Ploughed by the Exploding Shells: The Story of How American Policy on High Explosive Ordnance Shaped the Great War

July 1914. Worried nations started to mobilize their armies for war. Knowing a multi-front war against several countries simultaneously was likely, the Germans had but one plan. The Schlieffen Plan, which called for listing all of the country's likely foes by the time it would take them to mobilize for war so that they can each be defeated one at a time individually instead of facing a large, possibly unbeatable coalition force. There was but a small window within which the German military ...