Mons 1914 : Britains Tactical Triumph (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by David Lomas
Category: History

Mons came as a nasty shock to the Imperial German Army. Assured by their commanders that they would sweep the French and their British allies in the British Expeditionary Force --"that contemptible little army"--into the sea in a matter of weeks, they were stopped in their tracks at Mons by a numerically inferior British force. Eventually forced to fall back by overwhelming German numbers, the British carried out a masterful fighting retreat across Belgium and northern France. Mons has gone down in British military history as a name comparable with Waterloo or Dunkirk: in desperate times this was where the British Army proved itself against overwhelming odds.