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Author Greenhalgh, Elizabeth.

Title Foch in Command : the Forging of a First World War General
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (570 pages)
Series Cambridge Military Histories
Cambridge military histories.
Contents Cover; Foch in Command; Cambridge Military Histories; Title; Copyright; For Michael; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; 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
Summary This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marshals -- France -- Biography
Generals -- France -- Biography
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Command of troops -- Case studies
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Command of troops
Generals
Marshals
Military campaigns
France
Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
Genre/Form Biographies
Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139204415
1139204416
9781139205993
1139205994
9780511835254
0511835256