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Good. 448 pages. Includes Prologue by Edmund Stillman and Index. Also includes chapters on When the Lights Went Out; Appointment at the Marne; Guns East; Seeds of Stalemate; Spreading Conflict; Deadlock; Ordeal of Nations; Crisis in the Allied Camp; Waiting for America; Exit Russia; New Storm in the West; Enter the Yanks; Turning of the Tide; Eleventh Hour; and Versailles. Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, also known as Slam, (July 18, 1900-December 17, 1977) was a military journalist and historian. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, before leaving to work as a journalist, specializing in military affairs. In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and re-entered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He officially retired in 1960 but acted as an unofficial advisor during the Vietnam War. Marshall wrote some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, which was made into a film of the same name. His most famous work was Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command; based on group interviews, he concluded fewer than 25% of men in combat actually fired their weapons. His conclusion that a significant number of soldiers do not fire their weapons in combat have been verified by studies performed in other armies. Marshall concluded social conditioning against killing was so strong, many could not do so even at the risk of their own lives. Others argue so-called 'low fire' is a function of training. This book describes and analyzes the origins, course, and immediate aftermath of the colossal conflict. The story begins with a backward look at a smug and complacent world that had ensnared itself in a network of alliances. It ends, following a detailed survey of the strategies, the incredible errors, and the terrible slaughter of four agonizing years, with the Treaty of Versailles, an ill-starred pact which sowed the seeds for the dictatorships that were to plunge the following generation into World War II. "In the Bosnian town of Sarajevo on the morning of June 28, 1914, a chauffeur misunderstood his instructions, made the wrong turn, tried too late to correct his blunder, and in so doing, delivered his passengers to a point where a waiting assassin did not have to take aim to gun them down. Two rounds from one pistol and the world rocked. The crime was the small stone that loosened brings the avalanche." So begins Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall's compelling narrative of the American Heritage History of World War I, a book that tells the story of the Great War from Sarajevo to Versailles. Ten million men died; another 20 million were wounded. But it was not the numbers alone that made this the Great War. The flame thrower, the tank, and poison gas were introduced. Cavalry became obsolete; air combat and submarine warfare came of age. Old dynasties disintegrated; new nations appeared. In this book, renowned military historian Marshall, a World War I veteran, describes and analyzes the origins, course, and immediate aftermath of the colossal conflict. The story begins with a look backward at a complacent world ensnared in a network of alliances. Out of this setting emerged the cunning diplomats and statesmen who maneuvered and blundered their countries into positions that made the war inevitable. Once committed, the nations of Europe aligned into two, mighty opposing forces, and went jauntily into war, each confident that the conflict would be over before it really began. Marshall follows the personalities, strategies, errors, and the unremitting slaughter of the next four years. The story ends with the Treaty of Versailles, which sowed the seeds that would plunge the following generation into another world war.
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