Best WWI Retracing Journey
Riding The Retreat : Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited
The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.
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About the book
In this remarkable book, Richard Holmes retraces the entire route on horseback, following in the footsteps of those who made that desperate march more than seventy years before. Blending his recreation of the military campaign with contemporary testimony and a vivid account of his own ride over the route, Holmes takes the reader on a unique journey. This is military history at its most immediate and engaging - a chance to glimpse the summer the old world ended through the eyes of both those who lived it and a historian determined to understand their experience.
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Published by Vintage Publishing
