Publisher's Synopsis
This brilliant narrative history of the 31 days of August 1914 portrays the opening month of World War I. Profoundly serious and informative in scope but written with all the drama and immediacy of a great novel it describes the planned strategies of the generals, the preparation and morale of the armies of all the nations at war and the first month of battle from all sides. Steeped in the sources on the English, German, French and Russian sides it shows how through their human frailties and errors in strategy the commanders in the field became inexorably embroiled in Armageddon.
