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UNINA9910480479903321 |
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Autore |
Zabecki David T. |
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Titolo |
The Generals’ War [[electronic resource] ] : Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918 / / Major General David T. Ząbecki ; foreword by General Anthony Zinni |
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Bloomington, Indiana, : Indiana University Press, [2018] |
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1 online resource (1 PDF (xvii, 404 pages) :) : illustrations, color maps, portraits |
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Collana |
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Twentieth-century battles |
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Disciplina |
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Military art and science - History - 20th century |
Generals - History - 20th century |
Command of troops - History - 20th century |
World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Western Front |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-387) and index. |
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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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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. But as fresh American troops entered the front, the scales tipped against Germany. Some of the most critical |
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factors in the outcome of World War I were decisions made by the key commanders in Germany and in the Ally troops. The General's War explores the military strategies of the most senior generals of the last year of the Great War. These six very different men included Germany's Field Marshals Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff; France's Marshals Ferdinand Foch and Philippe Petain; Great Britain's Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; and the United States's General John Pershing. Although they may have not been known as great captains at the time, these six men determined how World War I played out on the battlefields of the western front between November 1917 and November 1918. A landmark analysis of the generalship that resulted in a casualty count of one and a quarter million soldiers, The General's War is an intimate look at the senior commanders of the Great War. |
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UNISA996385234303316 |
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Autore |
Monipennie John |
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The abridgement or summarie of the Scots chronicles [[electronic resource] ] : with a short description of their originall, from the comming of Gathelus, their first progenitour, out of Græcia into Egypt. And their comming into Portingall and Spaine: and of their kings and governours in Spaine, Ireland and Albion, now called Scotland (how beit the whole number bee not extant) with a true chronologie of all their kings. Their reignes, deaths, and burials, from Fergusius, the first king of Scotland, vntill his Royall Maiestie, now happily raigning ouer all Great Britaine and Ireland, and all the iles to them appertaining. With a true description and division of the whole realme of Scotland, and of the principall cities, townes, abbies, forts, castles, townes, and rivers, and of the commodities in everie part thereof, and of the iles in generall: with a memoriall of the most rare and wonderfull things in Scotland |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Edinburgh, : Printed by I[ohn] W[reittoun] for Iohn Wood, 1633 |
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Edizione |
[Latelie corrected and augmented.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Scotland Kings and rulers Early works to 1800 |
Scotland Nobility Early works to 1800 |
Scotland Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Dedication signed: I.M., i.e. John Monipennie. |
Printer's name from STC. |
Signatures: A-R. |
The last two leaves are blank. |
Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library. |
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