Foch in Command by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Ferdinand Foch ended the First World War as Marshal of France and supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front. Foch in Command is a pioneering study of his contribution to the Allied victory. Elizabeth Greenhalgh uses contemporary notebooks, letters and documents from previously under-studied archives to chart how the artillery officer, who had never commanded troops in battle when the war began, learned to fight the enemy, to cope with difficult colleagues and allies, and to manoeuvre through the political minefield of civil-military relations. She offers valuable insights into neglected questions: the contribution of unified command to the Allied victory; the role of a commander's general staff; and the mechanisms of command at corps and army level. She demonstrates how an energetic Foch developed war-winning strategies for a modern industrial war and how political realities contributed to his losing the peace.-
On a Knife Edge
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Uncivil War
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
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How the War Was Won
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Rommel's Desert War
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Douglas Haig and the First World War
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Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany
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Learning to Fight
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Britain's Pacification of Palestine
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Anatomy of a Campaign
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Balancing Strategy
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The Making of the Modern Admiralty
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Thailand's Secret War
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War
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The Malayan Emergency
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Mussolini and his Generals
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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy
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Enduring the Great War
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The Fall of Napoleon: Volume 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813–1814
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War's Logic
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Winning and Losing on the Western Front
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Victory through Coalition
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The Development of Military History in Britain
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Building an Air Force
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Leaving the Fight
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Moshe Dayan
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The German Army and the Defence of the Reich
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The Colonial Way of War
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Bombing the People
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Arms, Economics and British Strategy
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The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
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Haig's Intelligence
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America's Wars
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Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War
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Violence and Occupation
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Reporting the First World War
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Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign
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Holding Out
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The Generalissimo
'Relying on detailed archival work, Elizabeth Greenhalgh provides new insights into the depth of Foch's character and the quality of his thinking and leadershipShe deserves much praise for having written the best work about Foch in any language and for having resurrected his reputation as the finest general of the war.' Robert A. Doughty, author of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
'The coalition dimensions of military operations on the Western Front are all too often underplayed. Foch in Command is thus a very welcome study of the commander who emerged as Allied 'generalissimo' in 1918. Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a combative and readable historian, and her book will reshape the debate on the military history of the First World War.' Gary Sheffield, University of Birmingham
'With this book Elizabeth Greenhalgh has constructed a fascinating portrait of an improbable commander-in-chief who led a coalition of democracies to victory. A hot-headed chief who consistently exasperated the commanding officers of the Allied national armies, Foch pursued his own objectives founded on deep national preconceptions, convinced that determination was the key to controlling reality.' General André Bach, former head of the Service Historique de la Défense
'Few, I believe, would disagree with this assessment of Ferdinand Foch, and fewer still would hesitate to welcome this high-resolution snapshot of a military commander in wartime crisis.' H-France (h-france.net)
'The coalition dimensions of military operations on the Western Front are all too often underplayed. Foch in Command is thus a very welcome study of the commander who emerged as Allied 'generalissimo' in 1918. Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a combative and readable historian, and her book will reshape the debate on the military history of the First World War.' Gary Sheffield, University of Birmingham
'With this book Elizabeth Greenhalgh has constructed a fascinating portrait of an improbable commander-in-chief who led a coalition of democracies to victory. A hot-headed chief who consistently exasperated the commanding officers of the Allied national armies, Foch pursued his own objectives founded on deep national preconceptions, convinced that determination was the key to controlling reality.' General André Bach, former head of the Service Historique de la Défense
'Few, I believe, would disagree with this assessment of Ferdinand Foch, and fewer still would hesitate to welcome this high-resolution snapshot of a military commander in wartime crisis.' H-France (h-france.net)
Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a QEII Research Fellow based in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. Her previous publications include Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521195614 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521195616 |
| Title | Foch in Command |
| Author | Elizabeth Greenhalgh |
| Series | Cambridge Military Histories |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2011-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 568 |
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