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General Headquarters 1914 1916 And Its Critical Decisions
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Author : Erich von Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
General Headquarters 1914 1916 And Its Critical Decisions written by Erich von Falkenhayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
General Headquarters 1914 1916 And Its Critical Decisions
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Author : Erich Von 1861-1922 Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-10
General Headquarters 1914 1916 And Its Critical Decisions written by Erich Von 1861-1922 Falkenhayn and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-10 with categories.
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General Headquarters German 1914 16 And Its Critical Decisions
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Author : Erich von Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Release Date : 2005-02-01
General Headquarters German 1914 16 And Its Critical Decisions written by Erich von Falkenhayn and has been published by Naval & Military Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
General Erich von Falkenhayn was Prussian Minister of War at the outbreak of the Great War, and was appointed to succeed Von Moltke as Chief of the General Staff - and hence Germany s effective Commander-in-Chief - after the latter s failure at the Battle of the Marne. Falkenhayn was at Germany s military helm during the crucial middle period of the war, the two years from September 1914 to September 1916, when he was replaced by those terrible twins, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who presided over Germany s fate in 1917-18. Falkenhayn s memoirs, therefore, published in the immediate aftermath of the war in 1919, are one of the most important accounts from the German side. The remote and rather cold Falkenhayn will always be associated with the appalling Battle of Verdun, since it was his scheme for a battle of attrition to knock France out of the war, Operation Gericht , which went into effect in February 1916 and which ground to a halt in October of that year, just after Falkenhayn had been replaced. He was then transferred to the eastern front where he successfully commanded operations against the Russians. This book, however, covers only his period of command at GHQ, opening with the battles of the Yser, the First battle of Ypres, the beginning of trench warfare and the battle of Lodz in Poland. In 1915 it covers the German breakthrough in the east at Gorlice-Tarnow; Germany s controversial decision to begin unrestricted submarine warfare; Allied attempts to break through in the west in the autumn of 1915; and finally the battles of Verdun and the Somme in 1916. This book is a vital insight into the thinking behind German strategy in the watershed middle years of the war. Illustrated with 11 maps.
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916
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Author : General Erich von Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-12
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916 written by General Erich von Falkenhayn and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with History categories.
Having had a long and distinguished military career, in 1914 General Erich von Falkenhayn assumed the post as chief of the German General Staff in the middle of the First World War. The German position was at a crisis point, the initial plan to win the war by a wide out-flanking movement through Belgium had been foiled; a new plan would have to decided on. In the West, increasing numbers of British troops poured to the Front; in the East, the ambitious team of generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff pushed for reinforcements to finally beat the Russians. Falkenhayn decided that significant efforts must be made in the Western theatre and came up with a brutal plan to decide the war: he conceived the idea of besieging the historic French city of Verdun in early 1916, of "bleeding it white", as he phrased it. He planned to draw the bulk of the French army into the Verdun salient, thus effectively tying up the French army, and then to methodically destroy them with concentrated artillery fire. The plan failed only by valiant sacrifices and fighting by the French and pressure applied by their allies in other sectors, not least the British effort during the battle of the Somme. Falkenhayn was thereafter removed from his supreme post and would fight on other front in charge of smaller forces. His memoirs of the period of his command are illuminating and give an insight of what was going on “on the other side of the hill” during the First World War. Author — General von Falkenhayn, Erich, 1861-1922. Translator — Anon Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Hutchinson 1919. Original Page Count – 299 pages.
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916
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Author : Erich von Falkenhayn
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916 written by Erich von Falkenhayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
German General Staff Its Dec
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Author : Erich Georg Anton Sebastian Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-26
German General Staff Its Dec written by Erich Georg Anton Sebastian Falkenhayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with History categories.
German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916
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Author : ERICH VON. FALKENHAYN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916 written by ERICH VON. FALKENHAYN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916 Classic Reprint
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Author : General von Falkenhayn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-11
The German General Staff And Its Decisions 1914 1916 Classic Reprint written by General von Falkenhayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with History categories.
Excerpt from The German General Staff and Its Decisions, 1914-1916 This book is written in memory of all those who gave their lives and of those who suffered for the Fatherland. It will not praise their deeds in detail. It needs no herald for those who are living and want to see, and a stronger voice than mine will render to the coming generations the sublime song of German self-sacrifice, of German loyalty, and of German heroism in grave but glorious days. But the book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the two years of the war when I was at the head of the General Staff. My statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense of the world. They touch upon the events of the war, and other occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary to justify the decisions of the General Staff. They are not written for or against anybody. A judgment is only given, or a deduction made, where it seemed unavoidable in order to explain my actions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reader S Guide To Military History
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Author : Charles Messenger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Reader S Guide To Military History written by Charles Messenger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety of users, it encompasses general reviews of aspects of military organization and science, as well as specific wars and conflicts. The book examines naval and air warfare, as well as significant individuals, including commanders, theorists, and war leaders. Each entry includes a listing of additional publications on the topic, accompanied by an article discussing these publications with reference to their particular emphases, strengths, and limitations.
Soldiers And Statesmen 1914 1918
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Author : Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Soldiers And Statesmen 1914 1918 written by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
Sir William “Wully” Robertson was the first man to rise from the lowliest rank of private soldier to the highest rank of Field Marshal within the British Army. Determined, strong-willed and militarily conservative he served ably in field and staff positions in India and South Africa; always chary of wasting his men’s lives. When the First World War broke out he sailed with the BEF in 1914 as quartermaster-general but was promoted to the post of chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1915. A staunch “westerner” who believed that the war could only be won in France and Flanders by knocking the German army out of the war, he faced many amateur strategists who wanted to squander resources in other theatres. By 1918 he resigned his post in disgust at the policies of David Lloyd George who refused to reinforce Sir Douglas Haig in France precipitating the German breakthroughs of the spring and summer. From the very start of the war Robertson was at the hub of the action at the highest levels of the British war effort; in these two volumes he reveals the decisions and struggles that shaped that strategy. Filled with the opinion of the “westerner” school of thought; through the pages Robertson despairs at the Gallipoli invasion, sets against the Salonika disaster and fumes at the civilian members of the war cabinet and the “Supreme War Council”. Written a short time after the war with it all fresh and even with some bad feeling in mind these two volumes are essential to the History of the First World War.