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Pyrrhic Victory:

French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
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Harvard University Press, Jun 30, 2009 - History - 578 pages
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.
  

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There is little else available in English on the topic and Doughty is undoubtedly the best qualified to write it, given his previous work on the French Army between the World Wars and in 1940. As in ...

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Contents

The Transformation of the French Army
4
The War of Movement 1914
46
Siege Warfare 19141915
105
An Offensive Strategy MayOctober 1915
153
The Search for Strategic Alternatives 19151916
203
A Strategy of Attrition 1916
250
A Strategy of Dec1s1ve Battle Early 1917
311
A Strategy of Healing and Defense Late 1917
355
Responding to a German Offensive Spring 1918
405
A Strategy of Opportunism
461
The Misery of Victory
508
Abbreviations
519
Notes
521
Essay on Sources
565
Index
572
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About the author (2009)

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.

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