1914 THE FIRST BATTLES IN THE WEST: WWI Scenarios Vol. 2

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This set of twelve battles and ten divisional army lists represent actions which took place at the start of the Great War in 1914. The scenarios are set in Belgium and northern France. To a great extent this it is due to the quality of the source material covering those battles.

The battles of 1914 were marked by a great learning process where Generals were trying to come to terms with a way of fighting where casualties were far higher than anything yet experienced in Europe. This would eventually lead to the trench warfare of the Western Front, in effect a giant siege. But the scenarios covered by this book pre-date the trench warfare. The last scenario, White Sheet, has a hint of what was to come, but even here the defenders were not occupying a coherent trench system.