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Foley, Robert T.: German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916.(Book Review)
; ...the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development...by the elder Helmuth von Moltke in the last days...author rehabilitates Falkenhayn to the extent that his...business of war when Falkenhayn was dismissed from the...
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BOOKS: CALVARY ON THE MEUSE A rambling account of the grisly and prolonged struggle for Verdun has too many digressions and not enough dramatic tension, Frank McLynn argues
; ...in Britain. In 1916 General Erich von Falkenhayn (chief of the German General...considered the more formidable enemy. Falkenhayn calculated (correctly) that...Verdun been the true objective, Falkenhayn could probably have chalked...
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Digital, Cable and Satellite Television: Today's Choices
; ...General Henri Philippe Petain (right) and General Erich Von Falkenhayn. On the Western Front in 1916, the German commander, Von Falkenhayn, aimed to destroy the French at the Battle of Verdun...
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World War I battles and strategy.(books)(Book review)
; ...Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 578 pp, $39.95 US (cloth). German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916, by Robert T. Foley. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Book Reviews: Massacre of a city; The War Walk: A Journey Along The Western Front, by Nigel Jones, Cassell, pounds 7.99.(Features)
; ...it was here that Germany's Minister of War, General Erich von Falkenhayn, chose to launch the First World War's most calculated...invasion, being a Gallic fort before Roman times. Falkenhayn calculated that the French would throw every last...
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Verdun: expensive lessons.(THE GREAT WAR)
; ...German, was General Erich yon Falkenhayn. The enigmatic and...replaced General Helmuth von Moltke in the autumn...other German general, Falkenhayn looked beyond immediate...bleed to death ... Falkenhayn gave his battle plan...in great secrecy, Falkenhayn brought up 1,200 guns...
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Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism
; ...biography of Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg-the victor of the battle...at Verdun, France, and War Minister Erich von Falkenhayn's dismissal in late 1916, Hindenburg-along with Erich Ludendorff, his chief of staff-took...unrestricted submarine warfare, ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Germans snub French over Armistice venue; Survivor: French soldier at Verdun Diplomatic incident: Nicholas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni.
; ...a million more seriously wounded but there was no strategic gain on either side. The German commanding officer Erich von Falkenhayn, was dubbed The Blood-Miller of Verdun after he drew thousands of Frenchmen into a killing zone where they were...
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Iraq more than Bush bargained for War has a dynamism of its own that captures those who launch it and drives them where they never wanted to go
; ...Marshal Gen. Helmut Graf von Moltke deviated a bit from...Early in 1915 Field Marshal Erich von Falkenhayn (who replaced the disgraced von Moltke) went to German Chancellor...there is no Marshal von Falkenhayn around to tell the president...
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On Shaky Ground
; ...on the peace terms. In that time, Erich Ludendorff, the German army's first...scholarship does (in the cases of Alfred von Schlieffen and Ludendorff himself) or with less (in the case of Erich von Falkenhayn). Even more worrying are the errors...
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