Show 51 Blueprint For Armageddon Ii

Sean McMakin, who's written a whole book called the Russian origins of the First World War, where he says the Russians are the ones who should bear the entire lion's share of the guilt for starting this war.

In one of the most famous books ever written about the war, it's called Now It Can Be Told, a British reporter named Philip Gibbs went over to the continent right when this whole conflict breaks out.

John Lucy entitles a whole chapter of his book, Sleep Marching, and he talks about how there were people that would just stop at the side of the road and not care if the Germans were going to capture them.

Lynn MacDonald in her book 1914 quotes a bunch of people who were there, including Lieutenant Chapman, who as the British are dealing with the battle, tells what's going on to a compatriot of his and says about the repulsing of the German human wave attacks.

Peter Hart's book on the Great War has many wonderful firsthand accounts of what these experiences were like. Hart writes about the battles in the middle of the front through forested, hilly terrain.

David Stevenson has a great one-volume work on the war, and here's how he describes these offensives by Jauffer and the French.

Barbara Tuckman describes the experience during his inspections, Jaffra's riding around and he runs into some French soldiers.