The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914 - nouveau livre

1916. Doyle, the English novelist best known for his Sherlock Holmes detective books, also wrote historical novels and military books. This volume deals only with the events of 1914 in the British fighting-line in France and Belgium and the narrative is comprised of accounts, letters, diaries and interviews from the hand or lips of men who have been soldiers in our armies, the deeds of which it was his ambition to understand and chronicle. Contents: The Breaking of the Peace; The Opening of the War; The Battle of Mons; The Battle of Le Cateau; The Battle of the Marne; The Battle of the Aisne; The La Bassee-Armentieres Operations; The First Battle of Ypres; a Retrospect and General Summary; and The Winter Lull of 1914. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.