Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I Family Memoir and the sheer heartbreaking folly

and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown

but told no one

000 troops stood by to repel the enemy on the beaches

Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness

years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes

Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I Family Memoir and the sheer heartbreaking follyDescription by John Mosier Paperback Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one half to one third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans. This book was printed in the United States.