Excerpt from Germany in Defeat: A Strategic History of the War; First Phase
The Germans walk into the trap laid by Joffre for their annihilation, but one of Joffre sgenerals leaves the trapdoor open; and the British are wasted; The Germans, baulked of their scheme to trap the French in Belgium, and eluding the French trap, and compelled to a parallel fight, seek to cut off and envelop the British wing of the line - and fail; the British getting touch with the French line to right and left; After their strategic check at Cambrai the German staff resume, more to the west, their enveloping movement; The Great Retreat; The Battle of Nancy; Battle of the Ourcq; The crowning achievement of the Great Retreat, wherein Foch completely overthrows the whole German armies and saves France at the battle of Fere Champenoise; The overthrow of the largest German army by the army of Sarrail before Verdun
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