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Article: The Second Battle of the Marne.(Book review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNE, Michael S. Neiberg, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2008, 232 pages $27.95.
Michael Neiberg's The Second Battle of the Marne fills a void in the written history of the World War 1. He makes a great contribution to understanding that war by casting the Second Battle of the Marne in its proper and decisive place in history.
Neiberg begins at the beginning of the German offensive in the Marne with the disastrous compromise of their plan. In the hours preceding the offensive, a German officer conducting a reconnaissance on the Allied side of the Marne River was captured, and in his possession were the plans for that ...