The Killing Season

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. * Barry Strauss, author of ‘The War That Made the Roman Empire’ *This is a masterful and heart-breaking book. If you want to know how modern warfare began, The Killing Season is for you. * Geoffrey C. Ward, co-author of ‘The Civil War’, ‘The War,’ and ‘Vietnam’ *Robert Cowley brilliantly brings to light how underappreciated British, Belgian, and French heroism – amid the modern world’s introduction to the horrific concert of shrapnel-spewing artillery, repeating rifles, and machine guns – blocked the German advance to sea… Revisionist and original military history at its finest. * Victor Davis Hanson, author of ‘The End of Everything’ *[A] thrilling and compellingly readable account of the Battle of Ypres in October 1914… a magnificent, monumental achievement. * Michael Korda, author of ‘Muse of Fire’ *With a novelist’s eye for drama, and a historian’s mastery of detail, Cowley delivers a powerfully immersive experience for the reader, viscerally conveying the sheer folly of a conflict that decimated Europe. * Ted Widmer, author of ‘Lincoln on the Verge’ *

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.