Volume 29, Number 13 · August 12, 1982
Pictures from an Expedition
By A.J.P. Taylor
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th-August 25th, 1944
by John Keegan
Viking Press, 365 pp., $17.95
In the First World War Western Europe was the main theater from first to last. Creat Britain and later the United States behaved as European powers, dispatching their troops to the western front much as France did. The first battle on the western front, the battle of the Marne, determined that the war would drag on for more than four years, with one battle after another, all more or less in the same place, all inconclusive. In August 1918 there began a final battle in which the German front crumbled though it never broke. The First World war ended for the British where it had began, British troops encountered German troops for the first time on August 23 1914 at Mons; Canadian troops liberated Mons a few hours before the armistice came into force on November 11, 1918.
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