Robert T. Foley, Foley Robert T.

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun

Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870 1916

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History of the strategy behind the course of the battle of Verdun.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521044363
• ISBN-10: 0521044367
• Artikelnr.: 23109172

Autorenporträt

Robert T. Foley is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He is the editor and translator of Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings, 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Table of ranks
Maps
Introduction
1. The Volkskreig in German military thought
2. The (re)birth of Ermattungsstrategie
3. The short-war belief
4. The rise of Stellungskrieg
5. Competing strategic visions
6. Attack in the east
7. Defence in the west
8. Verdun: the plan
9. Verdun: the execution
10. Verdun: the failure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Table of ranks; Maps; Introduction; 1. The Volkskreig in German military thought; 2. The (re)birth of Ermattungsstrategie; 3. The short-war belief; 4. The rise of Stellungskrieg; 5. Competing strategic visions; 6. Attack in the east; 7. Defence in the west; 8. Verdun: the plan; 9. Verdun: the execution; 10. Verdun: the failure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

'This book is far more than a study of a grim battle ... Foley has written a book which will be referred to repeatedly.' Open History