The Killing Season

An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare.

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.