"The Timbó" (a unified cycle of novels consisting of seven novels and an epilogue) is the life's work of the French writer Rose Marten du Gar (1881-1958), one of the most important prose writers of the first half of the twentieth century, who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937.

The work is an ambitious fresco of France from the beginning of the twentieth century to the declaration of the First World War. At its center is the Timbó family: the father and his two sons, Antoine and Jacques. Around this trio, other characters move, who are directly or indirectly connected to them.

The first six novels lead to the seventh and largest in scope, "The Summer of 1914," which is the reason for the existence of the entire work. It is an almost day-by-day description of the events that led to the First World War. We witness the futile attempt of the French and German socialists to prevent the war, the chess game played by the governments, the intrigues of the staffs, and the apathy of the masses. Jacques, now a young man, is an active member of an idealistic socialist group (let us not forget that we are in the October Revolution, and therefore the roles of socialists and communists have not yet been separated) led by Pilot, a theoretician of the revolution and the brains behind the group.

An exciting representation of the historical moment that preceded the First World War.