Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne

by Ian Senior

In Invasion 1914, Ian Senior has woven together strategic analysis, diary entries, dramatic eyewitness accounts and interview transcripts from soldiers on the ground with consummate skill. For close to a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience in battle, despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force comprised just four divisions, while the French and Germans fielded 60 each. This title is a remarkable new narrative history that for the first time focuses on the experiences of French and German troops in the long hot summer of 1914 as the outcome of the war hung in the balance, revealing how the defiant French opposition and failings in the German invasion plans ultimately foiled the German war machine and changed the course of the war.

Genres: World War I, Military History, History

400 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2014

About the author

Ian Senior has taught at Dulwich College, a boarding and day school for boys, in Dulwich in southeast London, England. He is also Associate Lecturer in the History of Art for the Open University, a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. He first became interested in the battlefields of 1914 when visiting his wife's family in her native Belgium.

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Reviews

[Betsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terrific book about the beginning of WWI to the Battle of the Marne in Seotember of 1914. The interesting thing about this book is that it concentrates more on the French/German battles as opposed to the British contributions. I learned a great deal and appreciate the author's analysis at the end.