Marshal Joffre
Marshal Joffre

Author: André Bourachot

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1473838266

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A century ago General Joffre, as Chief of the French General Staff, led the armies that blocked the German invasion at the First Battle of the Marne. He saved Paris from occupation and France from probable defeat. His calm demeanour when faced with a disaster, his ruthless dismissal of incompetent subordinates, and his skilled redeployment of his forces contributed to a historic victory. At the time many saw him as the saviour of the nation, but what should we make of him now? For Joffre contributed to the failures of the French army and its strategy before the war and during the first battles of 1914. Also his conduct of the war after the Marne futile offensives that cost thousands of lives and gained no ground, followed by near defeat at Verdun - undermined his position and led to his dismissal.Although he remained immensely popular in France, his reputation has been under a cloud ever since, and he has been overshadowed by the French generals - Ptain and especially Foch - who commanded the French army at the time of the final victory over Germany.Andr Bourachot, in this lucid and highly readable study of Joffre's career, focuses on his performance during the opening phase of the Great War. He offers a fresh and carefully considered view of the man and the soldier.

The French Army and the First World War
The French Army and the First World War

Author: Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 110701235X

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A major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.

Reputations, Ten Years After
Reputations, Ten Years After

Author: Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, ten years after the armistice, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.

Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhic Victory

Author: Robert A. Doughty

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0674034317

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As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favoring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts around the periphery of the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires and eventually break the enemy's defenses. But France did not have sufficient resources to push the Germans back from the Western Front and attack elsewhere. The offensives they launched proved costly, and their tactical and operational methods ranged from remarkably effective to disastrously ineffective. Using extensive archival research, Doughty explains why France pursued a multi-front strategy and why it launched numerous operations as part of that strategy. He also casts new light on France's efforts to develop successful weapons and methods and the attempts to use them in operations. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, Pyrrhic Victory is destined to become the standard account of the French army in the Great War.

Heroes and Heroic, Deeds of the Great War (Classic Reprint)
Heroes and Heroic, Deeds of the Great War (Classic Reprint)

Author: Donald A. Mackenzie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780260719171

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Excerpt from Heroes and Heroic, Deeds of the Great War Never before in the history of the world has war been waged on such a gigantic scale. Never before have such vast armies been gathered together, or so many different nations and races been drawn into conflict. It is no exaggeration to say that the ultimate result of this great war will affect the future Of every people on the face of the globe. 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.

General Maxime Weygand, 1867-1965
General Maxime Weygand, 1867-1965

Author: Anthony Clayton

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9780253015822

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The career of the French general Maxime Weygand offers a fascinating glimpse into the perils and politics of military leadership and loyalty in the interwar years and after France's defeat in 1940. Of obscure birth, Weygand had an outstanding career during WWI as chief of staff for Marshal Foch and served France after the war in Poland and Syria before returning home. Alarmed by Nazi Germany's rearmament, Weygand locked horns with a political leadership skeptical of the growing military threat, leading to accusations that his desire for a strong army was anti-democratic. With German invaders again threatening Paris, Weygand argued for armistice rather than face certain military defeat. No friend of the newly-installed Vichy government, Weygand was soon shuffled off to North Africa, where he plotted the army's return to the Allied cause. After the German entry into Unoccupied France, Weygand was imprisoned. Released at war's end, he was rearrested on the orders of Charles de Gaulle and afterwards fought to restore his name. In this concise biography, Anthony Clayton traces the vertiginous changes in fortune of a soldier whose loyalty to France and to the French army was unwavering.

The Story of the Great War
The Story of the Great War

Author: Roland G. (Roland Greene) B. Usher

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017256512

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