Status Updates From The Guns of August

Gallini jumped on this with Joffre and demanded quick action. Joffre had a breakdown under a pear tree but agreed. They managed to get Britain, much to the behest of Sir John French to support the assault. They ended up smashing the German rear (pause) which led to a retest and the eventual drawn out ending of 3 years of trench warfare

Kluck made the design to turn his army towards the French center supporting his fellow soldiers. He believed that the French and British armies were all but defeated and the reminder would be holding Paris. So he decided to avoid Paris all together. This would have been a brilliant play had the culmination been working as expected. Instead he sped ahead of the other army exposing a massive hole in the flank

Reading again, after maybe ten years, for my book club.