The Generals' War : Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918 /

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Known as the war to end all wars and the Great War, World War I was the stage for a new form of mass destruction and violent chemical warfare. When the Bolsheviks pulled Russia out of the war in 1917, the Germans turned their offensive moves to the eastern front in hopes of winning the war in 1918....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zabecki, David T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Twentieth-century battles.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Military art and science > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Generals > History > 20th century.
Command of troops > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Western Front.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Generalship in the Great War
  • Future shock on the 1914-1918 battlefield
  • The strategic situation at the end of 1917
  • The commanders in chief
  • The Yanks are coming
  • Two conferences in November 1917
  • The gathering storm
  • Michael and Georgette : Ludendorff versus Haig
  • Blücher and Gneisenau : Ludendorff versus Foch and Petain
  • Operation Marneschutz-Reims and the Second Battle of the Marne : Foch wrests the initiative
  • Hamel to Mont St. Quentin : Haig assumes the offensive
  • Closing to the Hindenburg Line : Foch tightens the vise
  • The allied general offensive : Foch moves in for the kill
  • Armistice and occupation : 11 November 1918-28 June 1919
  • The fluctuating verdict of history.

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