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August 1914: Within the sweltering warmth, the destiny of Europe hangs in the total amount. Germany is hurling her forces into a carefully organized invasion of Belgium and France. Bound by an 1839 treaty to safeguard Belgium from any invader, Britain arrived to its defence. Using the British Expeditionary Make numbering just 120,000 men, and dwarfed by the huge manpower of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II remains unfazed by this 'contemptible little army'. But the BEF was, man for man, the best trained army in Europe. It was led by difficult and experienced officers who had learned their brutal trade in brutal colonial warfare. Their fight performance in 1914 would concrete their place ever sold. Within times of the BEF's deployment, the full weight of the German invasion crashed into the thin British range. Faced with mind-boggling enemy statistics, and battling alongside unreliable French allies, the BEF was pressured into The Great Retreat. The Great Retreat is the story of this desperate battle for survival. While Germany was attempting to crush France in one fell swoop, the Allies desperately sought time and space in order that they could install a counterattack to stem the tide.
