Table of Contents

• Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1914, Part 1 edited by Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker
• List of Maps, Sketches, and Figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: The Battle of the Frontiers in the West
• 1. Introduction
• The Two-Front War and Comparison of Strengths
• The Outbreak of War
• The War's Duration and Economic Management
• 2. The Campaign Plan for the Western Front
• The Historical Development of the Operative Idea
• The Campaign Plan in 1914
• 3. The Deployment
• The German Deployment in the West
• Initial Border and Railway Security Operations in the West and the Occupation of Luxembourg
• The Capture of Fortress Liège
• The Strategic Reconnaissance
• The Execution of the German Deployment in the West
• 4. The Beginning of Major Operations
• The German OHL before the Start of the Advance
• The Advance of the German Wheeling Wing, 18-20 August
• The Right Wing (First, Second, and Third Armies)
• 5. The Battle of the Frontiers
• The OHL before the Start of the Battle of the Frontiers
• The Battles of Mons and Namur
• The Operations of First, Second, and Third Armies on 21 August
• The Operations of First, Second, and Third Armies on 22 August
• Second and Third Armies, 23 August
• The Capture of Namur
• First Army's Operations on 23 and 24 August
• The OHL during the Frontier Battles
• 6. The Pursuit
• 1. The Operations of the German Right Wing until 27 August
• Second Army on 25 August
• Third Army on 25 and 26 August
• Second Army on 26 August
• First Army's Pursuit of the British from 25 to 27 August
• Second and Third Armies on 27 August
• The OHL during the Pursuit-Operations to 27 August
• 7. Review
• Part II: From the Sambre to the Marne
• 8. The OHL at the Beginning of the New Phase of Operations
• 9. Operations on the Meuse and Aisne
• 1. Third Army's Battle North of the Aisne, 28-30 August
• 2. The Operations of Third and Fourth Armies on the Aisne, 31 August and 1 September
• 10. The Operations of First and Second Armies to the Oise
• 1. The Operations of First Army on the Somme and Avre, 28-30 August
• 2. The Battle at St. Quentin
• The Beginning of the Battle, 28 August
• The Battle on the Right German Flank on 29 August
• The Battle on the Left German Flank on 29 August
• Continuation and Conclusion of the Battle on 30 August
• 11. The OHL, 29-30 August
• 12. The Pursuit by the German Right Wing to the Marne, 31 August-2 September
• 1. First Army's Crossing of the Oise (31 August)
• 2. Second Army's Halt (31 August)
• 3. First Army's Advance across the Aisne
• 4. Second Army's Advance on the Aisne
• 5. First Army's Pursuit Battle South of the Aisne
• 6. Second Army's Crossing of the Aisne
• 7. Third Army's Pursuit East of Reims
• 13. The OHL, 31 August-2 September
• 14. The Pursuit of the German Right Wing across the Marne on 3-4 September
• 1. First Army Crosses the Marne
• 2. Second Army's Advance towards the Marne
• 3. Third Army's Pursuit Battles up to the River Vesle
• 4. First Army's Operations South of the Marne
• 5. Second Army's Pursuit across the Marne
• 6. Third Army Reaches the Marne
• 15. The OHL, 3-4 September
• Appendices
• Appendix 1
• Comparison of the Organization of German, French, British, and Belgian Units
• Appendix 2
• The Strength of the Mutual Forces on the Western Front on 22 August 1914
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Mark Osborne Humphries is Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS). He is the author of numerous publications, including The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (2013).

John Maker received his PhD in history from the University of Ottawa in 2010. His work has been published in Canadian Military History and Histoire Sociale.

Reviews

``This is history from the command level; the book contains an amazing amount of information.... With skillfully translated documents, italicized summaries tying the documentation together, enormously informative footnotes and citations, appendixes, and maps, this scholarly endeavor is not for general readers, but is a major contribution to WWI historiography. Professional and popular historians will ignore it and future volumes at their own risk. Summing Up: Essential.''--C.L. Egan "CHOICE, May 2014"