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The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans Kansas City sent her – and herDescription By Ian Sumner Paperback Osprey's study of the Battle of the Marne, which was one of the decisive encounters of World War I (1914 1918), saving France from a catastrophic defeat that would almost certainly have knocked her out of the war. Germany's failure to defeat the French committed her to a war on two fronts, which would lead to trench warfare and the war of attrition that the General Staff had hoped to avoid. The conduct of the battle