Robert Cowley is an authority on American and European military history whose writing spans the American Civil War to World War II. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. As part of his research he drove and walked the entire length of the Western Front. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Killing Season has all the elements of an epic. A bloody, consequential battle, a cast of heroic characters, taut writing, superb research, and an unputdownable story, all make Robert Cowley’s a great book. It will stand as a classic of military history.

• List of IllustrationsMap: The Battle for YpresIntroductionI: The Shadow of Schlieffen Prologue: August 20, 1914, Near Charleroi, Belgium1. “The Virtuosity of Sheer Audacity”2. The Man Who Willed a WarII: The Flanders of Convergence3. "The Strength of Despair"4. The Antwerp Diversion5. Testimony of the Spade6. Race to the Sea7. Accidental Tourists8. October SurpriseIII: Arc of Flame9. The Salient 10. Shoulder to Shoulder11. Singers in the Mist 12. The River Redoubt13. The Great Fear14. “Hanging on by Our Eyelids”15. One DayIV: Ne Plus Ultra16. The Bargeman’s Solution17. Dead Sea18. The Gap19. “Fancy Meeting You Here”20. The Kaiser’s Battle21. The Invention of No-Man’s LandEpilogue: November 17-18, 1914, Klein-Zillebeke, BelgiumAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Robert Cowley is an authority on American and European military history whose writing spans the American Civil War to World War II. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. As part of his research he drove and walked the entire length of the Western Front. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Killing Season has all the elements of an epic. A bloody, consequential battle, a cast of heroic characters, taut writing, superb research, and an unputdownable story, all make Robert Cowley’s a great book. It will stand as a classic of military history.

• List of IllustrationsMap: The Battle for YpresIntroductionI: The Shadow of Schlieffen Prologue: August 20, 1914, Near Charleroi, Belgium1. “The Virtuosity of Sheer Audacity”2. The Man Who Willed a WarII: The Flanders of Convergence3. "The Strength of Despair"4. The Antwerp Diversion5. Testimony of the Spade6. Race to the Sea7. Accidental Tourists8. October SurpriseIII: Arc of Flame9. The Salient 10. Shoulder to Shoulder11. Singers in the Mist 12. The River Redoubt13. The Great Fear14. “Hanging on by Our Eyelids”15. One DayIV: Ne Plus Ultra16. The Bargeman’s Solution17. Dead Sea18. The Gap19. “Fancy Meeting You Here”20. The Kaiser’s Battle21. The Invention of No-Man’s LandEpilogue: November 17-18, 1914, Klein-Zillebeke, BelgiumAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Robert Cowley is an authority on American and European military history whose writing spans the American Civil War to World War II. He has held several senior positions in book and magazine publishing and is the founding editor of the award-winning MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. As part of his research he drove and walked the entire length of the Western Front. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Killing Season has all the elements of an epic. A bloody, consequential battle, a cast of heroic characters, taut writing, superb research, and an unputdownable story, all make Robert Cowley’s a great book. It will stand as a classic of military history.

• List of IllustrationsMap: The Battle for YpresIntroductionI: The Shadow of Schlieffen Prologue: August 20, 1914, Near Charleroi, Belgium1. “The Virtuosity of Sheer Audacity”2. The Man Who Willed a WarII: The Flanders of Convergence3. "The Strength of Despair"4. The Antwerp Diversion5. Testimony of the Spade6. Race to the Sea7. Accidental Tourists8. October SurpriseIII: Arc of Flame9. The Salient 10. Shoulder to Shoulder11. Singers in the Mist 12. The River Redoubt13. The Great Fear14. “Hanging on by Our Eyelids”15. One DayIV: Ne Plus Ultra16. The Bargeman’s Solution17. Dead Sea18. The Gap19. “Fancy Meeting You Here”20. The Kaiser’s Battle21. The Invention of No-Man’s LandEpilogue: November 17-18, 1914, Klein-Zillebeke, BelgiumAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex