| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Major battles and campaigns ; 1 |
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Major battles and campaigns ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index. |
| Contents |
January i, 1917 -- Maneuver in Mass: The 1917 Allied Offensive -- Maneuver by an Empire: The Lowlands Campaign -- Mountain Maneuver: The talian Front -- Maneuver by Machine: Cambrai -- Maneuver by Skill: The German Offensive of 1918 -- Maneuver by Riflemen: The American Campaign -- Attrition -- Continuity and Change -- Essay on Sources. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Note |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 by Rod Paschall is the first volume in the Major Battles and Campaigns series under the general editorship of John S. D. Eisenhower. Designed for the armchair strategist, this book offers striking proof of the inaccuracy of the conventional depiction of the trench warfare of the First World War, in which commanding generals are seen as mediocre and unimaginative, having stubbornly sent hundreds of thousands of troops over the top to be mowed down by the lethal weaponry of modern war. Paschall builds a compelling case that the generals on both sides invented ingenious new strategies that simply failed in the context of a war of attrition. In a series of vivid analyses of successive offenses, Paschall describes the generals' plans, how their plans were aimed at dislodging the entrenched enemy and restoring maneuver and breakthrough on the Western Front, and what happened when the massed soldiery under their command sought to carry out their orders. Though these strategies and tactics largely failed at the time, they would prove successful when implemented twenty years later during World War II. Dozens of photographs, many never before published, as well as theater and battlefield maps help make The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 an outstanding and original contribution to the body of knowledge of the Great War. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
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Geschichte (1917-1918)
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HISTORY / Military / World War I
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Paschall, Rod, 1935- Defeat of imperial Germany, 1917-1918 094557505X (DLC) 88029356 (OCoLC)18560375 |
| ISBN |
9781616204105 (electronic bk.) |
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1616204109 (electronic bk.) |
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