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The Fighting Retreat To Paris

Chapter 2: The Daily Telegraph WAR BOOKS
By Roger Ingpen
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A concise narrative of the opening weeks of the western campaign, tracing the mobilisation and transport of the Expeditionary Force, official messages and orders, and the successive engagements and withdrawals that followed. It combines despatches with eyewitness reports and unit vignettes to depict actions at Mons, Charleroi and along the Meuse, artillery and cavalry encounters, heavy casualties, the fall of fortified points, and the subsequent fighting during the retreat toward Paris. Chapters cover operations around the Oise and at Compiègne, the enemy advance on the capital, government evacuation and siege preparations, and conclude with assessments of strategic shifts and the campaign’s outcome.

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Title: The Fighting Retreat To Paris

Author: Roger Ingpen

Release date: December 15, 2016 [eBook #53736]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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The Daily Telegraph
WAR BOOKS

THE FIGHTING
RETREAT TO PARIS

The Daily Telegraph
WAR BOOKS

HOW THE WAR BEGAN
By W. L. Courtney, LL.D., and J. M. Kennedy.

THE FLEETS AT WAR
By Archibald Hurd.

THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN
By George Hooper.

THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIEGE
By J. M. Kennedy.

IN THE FIRING LINE: Stories of Actual Fighting by the Men who Fought. By A. St. John Adcock.

GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD
By Stephen Crane, Author of “The Red Badge of Courage.”

THE RED CROSS IN WAR
By Miss M. F. Billington.

FORTY YEARS AFTER: The Story of the Franco-German War. By H. C. Bailey, with Introduction by W. L. Courtney, LL.D.

A SCRAP OF PAPER: The Inner History of German Diplomacy. By Dr. E. J. Dillon.

HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR
By J. M. Kennedy.

BRITISH REGIMENTS AT THE FRONT
The Glorious Story of their Battle Honours.

HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM
By Edmund Dane.

AIRCRAFT IN WAR
By Eric S. Bruce.

FAMOUS FIGHTS OF INDIAN NATIVE REGIMENTS
By Reginald Hodder.

THE FIGHTING RETREAT TO PARIS
By Roger Ingpen.

MOTOR TRANSPORT IN WAR
By Horace Wyatt.

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE
By Marr Murray.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

THE FIGHTING
RETREAT TO PARIS

BY
ROGER INGPEN

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
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