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It was September 1914 on the Western Front. The giant armies of the Entente and the German Reich were locked in a desperate struggle for survival, just six weeks after the Great War began.
People can’t fathom how deadly the opening battles of the war – when it was a war of movement – actually were. On August 22, 1914, for example, the French had 27,000 men killed. Not total casualties, but killed. For the entire rest of the war, that would remain the highest single day death toll any nation took during the whole war.

The initial plans of both sides soon failed and the beginning of a deadly stalemate set in. Both sides looked north, trying to find the last open gaps in the line. Whoever got there first; whoever put enough weight behind their punches to outflank the other side, might still be victorious. This was the ‘Race to the Sea‘.

Description

It was September 1914 on the Western Front. The giant armies of the Entente and the German Reich were locked in a desperate struggle for survival, just six weeks after the Great War began.
People can’t fathom how deadly the opening battles of the war – when it was a war of movement – actually were. On August 22, 1914, for example, the French had 27,000 men killed. Not total casualties, but killed. For the entire rest of the war, that would remain the highest single day death toll any nation took during the whole war.

The initial plans of both sides soon failed and the beginning of a deadly stalemate set in. Both sides looked north, trying to find the last open gaps in the line. Whoever got there first; whoever put enough weight behind their punches to outflank the other side, might still be victorious. This was the ‘Race to the Sea‘.