Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Marne

Chapter 2 A Slow and Cautious Advance

Chapter 3 Parrying the Blow

Chapter 4 Bridges over Troubled Waters

Chapter 5 The Left Flank – 4th Division

Chapter 6 The Centre Left – 5th Division

Chapter 7 The Centre Right – 3rd Division

Chapter 8 The Right Flank – 2nd Division

Chapter 9 On the Chemin des Dames – 1st Division

Chapter 10 Trench Warfare

Chapter 11 The 6th Division

Chapter 12 Ubique

Chapter 13 Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Chapter 14 Prisoners of War

Chapter 15 Epilogue

Notes on Sources

Appendix I: Order of Battle – British Expeditionary Force September 1914

Appendix II: The Aisne Cemeteries

Bibliography