Pyrrhic Victory French Strategy and Operations in the Great War

Name: Pyrrhic Victory French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
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ISBN: 9780674027268

ISBN-10: 0674027264

ISBN-13: 9780674027268

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert A. Doughty

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert A. Doughty served as Professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy from 1985 to 2005.



List of Maps


Preface


Introduction



The Transformation of the French Army



The War of Movement, 1914



Siege Warfare, 1914-1915



An Offensive Strategy, May-October 1915



The Search for Strategic Alternatives, 1915-1916



A Strategy of Attrition, 1916



A Strategy of Decisive Battle, Early 1917



A Strategy of "Healing" and Defense, Late 1917



Responding to a German Offensive, Spring 1918



A Strategy of Opportunism


Conclusion: The "Misery" of Victory


Abbreviations


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index