The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940After setting the stage with a look at the founding of the Republic in 1871, describes the political, social, and religious divisions in the country, the "Maginot Line complex" growing out of military trust in a defensive war, and the deleterious effect of the tragedy of World War I. |
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Page 81
... offensive from the very start of hostilities . They preached the offensive à outrance , the attaque brusquée , ending up with the bayonet charge . They never tired of reiterating the dictum of the brilliant theorist Colonel Ardant du ...
... offensive from the very start of hostilities . They preached the offensive à outrance , the attaque brusquée , ending up with the bayonet charge . They never tired of reiterating the dictum of the brilliant theorist Colonel Ardant du ...
Page 122
... offensive through Belgium and proposing that it be met by a French army of one million men dug in along a line between Verdun and Antwerp and running through Namur on the Meuse . This was anathema to his fellow generals for two reasons ...
... offensive through Belgium and proposing that it be met by a French army of one million men dug in along a line between Verdun and Antwerp and running through Namur on the Meuse . This was anathema to his fellow generals for two reasons ...
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... offensive with the bulk of my forces by the fifteenth day after mobilization . It has been impossible for me to do more.4 This incredible reply reveals more than we have yet learned of the generalissimo of the French armies . For the ...
... offensive with the bulk of my forces by the fifteenth day after mobilization . It has been impossible for me to do more.4 This incredible reply reveals more than we have yet learned of the generalissimo of the French armies . For the ...
Contents
Foreword | 11 |
Debacle Summer 1940 | 21 |
The Dreyfus Affair 18941906 | 48 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Strategy Without Slide-rule: British Air Strategy, 1914-1939 Barry D. Powers No preview available - 1976 |