The Myth of the Great War

by Mosier, John

• ISBN13: 9780060196769
• ISBN10: 0060196769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-05
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

A powerful memoir about identity and the dark truths and lies within a family, here is the story of one man’s struggle to prevent the problems of his own past from seeping into his own son’s future.

Author Biography

John Mosier is full professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans, where, as chair of the English Department and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, he taught primarily European literature and film.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: The War on the Western Front	1	(12)
France and the Failures of National Defense, 1870--1914	13	(18)
Germany and the Development of Combined Arms Tactics	31	(24)
1914: The Fall of the Forts	55	(12)
1914: The Battles of the Frontiers	67	(16)
1914: The Myth of the Marne	83	(18)
1914: German Offensives After the Marne	101	(24)
1915: The Struggle for the Buttes---The Vauquois and Les Eparges	125	(18)
1915: Champagne and the Woevre	143	(22)
1915: The War in the Vosges	165	(16)
1915: Allied and German Plans and Goals	181	(26)
1916: Verdun, An Unfinished Victory	207	(22)
1916: Massacre on the Somme	229	(16)
1916: Rumania and Other Catastrophes	245	(22)
1917: The Allies Play Their Last Hand	267	(22)
1917: Caporetto and Cambrai	289	(14)
1917--1918: The Great Race	303	(24)
1918: The AEF and the End of the War	327	(12)
Epilogue: Pseudoreality Prevails	339	(8)
An Essay on Sources	347	(20)
Index	367