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Author Greenhalgh, Elizabeth.

Title Foch in Command : the Forging of a First World War General.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (570 pages).
text file
Series Cambridge Military Histories
Cambridge military histories.
Summary This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
Marshals -- France -- Biography.
Marshals.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Generals -- France -- Biography.
Generals.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Command of troops -- Case studies.
Command of troops.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780521195614
ISBN 9781139204415
1139204416
9781139205993 (electronic book)
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9780511835254 (electronic book)
0511835256 (electronic book)
9780521195614
0521195616
9781139203005