Foch in Command - The Forging of a First World War General

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a QEII Research Fellow based in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. Her previous publications include Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Klappentext This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918. Zusammenfassung This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918. Elizabeth Greenhalgh sheds new light on how Foch grappled with the enemy! with his allies and with his political masters! and how he learned to wage modern industrial war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. From Theory to Practice: 1. From the Ecole de Guerre to August 1914 in Lorraine; 2. 'He held to the last quarter hour': with Ninth Army on the Marne; 3. Commander-in-Chief's deputy in the north, October-November 1914; 4. The end of the war of movement and reflections on 1914; 5. Second Artois, January-June 1915; 6. Third Artois, June-October 1915; 7. The scientific method: planning the Somme, 1916; 8. Fighting on the Somme, July-November 1916; 9. In disgrace: reflections on two years of command; 10. Intermezzo 1917; Part II. Supreme Command: 11. At the Supreme War Council, November 1917-March 1918; 12. Michael and Georgette, March-April 1918; 13. BLÜCHER and GNEISENAU, May-June 1918; 14. Marneschutz-Reims and Second Marne, July 1918; 15. 'Les Boches sont dans la purée': the Huns are really in the soup; 16. 'Tout le monde à la bataille'; 17. Waffenstillstand, October-November 1918; 18. Losing the peace; Conclusion: 'supreme command is less than people think'.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (University of New South Wal Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (University of New South Wales Greenhalgh, Greenhalgh Elizabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521195614
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19561-4
• No. of pages: 568
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Land forces and warfare