Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914

CONTENTS

List of Images

Prologue: First Blood

PART ONE: ADVANCE TO BATTLE

1 Opening the War Book

2 Across the Channel

3 The March to Mons

4 The Kaiser’s Army

5 Encounter at Mons

PART TWO: THE GREAT RETREAT

6 Disengagement

7 Le Cateau: the Decision to Fight

8 Le Cateau: the Defeat

9 Failures of Command

10 The Retreat Continues

PART THREE: FROM THE MARNE TO THE AISNE

11 Turn of the Tide

12 Battle on the Aisne: Assault

13 Battle on the Aisne: Entrenchment

PART FOUR: DECISION AT YPRES

14 The Opening Moves

15 Storm over Ypres

16 Battle in the South

17 Ypres: the Test

Epilogue: Death of the Old Army

Appendix A: BEF Order of Battle 1914

Appendix B: British Army Organization

Acknowledgements