The Killing Season
The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
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"The First Battle of Ypres, waged in the fall of 1914, changed how wars are fought. This decisive battle denied Germany a quick victory as they failed to capture the Channel ports, ensuring World War I would carry on for years. It not only extended the war but defined it, and in novelistic prose Robert Cowley delves into the human experience of this weeks-long pitched battle that gave birth to 'no man's land,' that spectral space of shattered trees and pockmarked earth: battlegrounds where thousands of men fought to gain thirty feet of territory--only to lose it again the next day. As battle l...
"The First Battle of Ypres, waged in the fall of 1914, changed how wars are fought. This decisive battle denied Germany a quick victory as they failed to capture the Channel ports, ensuring World War I would carry on for years. It not only extended the war but defined it, and in novelistic prose Robert Cowley delves into the human experience of this weeks-long pitched battle that gave birth to 'no man's land,' that spectral space of shattered trees and pockmarked earth: battlegrounds where thousands of men fought to gain thirty feet of territory--only to lose it again the next day. As battle lines became entrenched, Cowley reveals a crucial, overlooked 'What if?' of history: the afternoon when the Germans hesitated to attack the depleted British forces and lost their best chance of winning the Western Front"