The first volume represents a snapshot of the army on 2 August 1914, before all the developments forced on it by the war. The second volume deal with the great
Though not so famous as the battles of Tannenberg or the Marne, the fight between the French and German armies at Alsace and Lorraine marks the first battle of
The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to th
“Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”�