Nord 1914, the Invasion
French military plans before 1914 envisaged a war fought mainly in eastern France. The Schlieffen Plan, drawn up by the German General Staff, threw the Kaiser's armies into Belgium, from where they pushed into the north without stopping, with the objective of destroying the French army between Paris and the Vosges.
After the check on the Marne, the two sides tried to outflank each other by moving westward. Thus began the Race to the Sea, which brought the war into the Somme, then the Pas-de-Calais and the Nord, before coming to a halt in Belgium.
This book retraces the invasion of northern France, covering the fighting around Arras, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, the battles of Maubeuge and Lille, as well as the German occupation and the terrible lives of the civilian population under German domination.
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