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![August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever by [Bruno Cabanes, Stephanie O'Hara]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51REY3lEeiL._SY346_.jpg)
August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever Kindle Edition
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A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France.
On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . .
Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike.
“An exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.” —Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
“This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.” —Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.” —David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date23 August 2016
- File size737 KB
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- ASIN : B01J26RRNA
- Publisher : Yale University Press (23 August 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 737 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 198 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 289,028 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 32 in History of Belgium
- 156 in History of France (Kindle Store)
- 236 in World War I History (Kindle Store)
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The information it did contain was interesting, but if you're looking for something more specifically about combat during the opening of WW1 in Europe something like Lost Opportunity by Simon House, Catastrophe by Max Hastings or Sewell Tyng's Campaign of the Marne will do you better.



