German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
The term "Battle of Verdun" has become synonymous with senseless slaughter. This book offers a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's bloodiest battles by examining the development of German military ideas from the end of the Franco-German War in 1871 to the First World War. Its use of recently released German sources held in the Soviet Union since the Second World War sheds new light on German ideas about attrition before and during the First World War.
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
The term "Battle of Verdun" has become synonymous with senseless slaughter. This book offers a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's bloodiest battles by examining the development of German military ideas from the end of the Franco-German War in 1871 to the First World War. Its use of recently released German sources held in the Soviet Union since the Second World War sheds new light on German ideas about attrition before and during the First World War.
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

by Robert T. Foley
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916

by Robert T. Foley

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The term "Battle of Verdun" has become synonymous with senseless slaughter. This book offers a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's bloodiest battles by examining the development of German military ideas from the end of the Franco-German War in 1871 to the First World War. Its use of recently released German sources held in the Soviet Union since the Second World War sheds new light on German ideas about attrition before and during the First World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521044363
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2007
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert T. Foley is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He is the editor and translator of Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings, 2002.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Table of ranks; Maps; Introduction; 1. The Volkskreig in German military thought; 2. The (re)birth of Ermattungsstrategie; 3. The short-war belief; 4. The rise of Stellungskrieg; 5. Competing strategic visions; 6. Attack in the east; 7. Defence in the west; 8. Verdun: the plan; 9. Verdun: the execution; 10. Verdun: the failure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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