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Foch and His Flexible War Craft in World War I
A historical portrait of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, contrasting his flexible approach with German strategy and Napoleon era methods. The piece covers his teaching at Ecole de Guerre, his battle leadership in 1914 and 1918, and anecdotes on his sense of propriety during Armistice negotiations and the Paris victory parade.
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France
Generalissime
England
Paris
The
Marne
Ferdinand Foch
Foch
la Fere-Champenoise
Flanders
Mets
Lorraine
Marshal Foch
Clermany
Hindenburg
Enda
Prussia
Staff
Masurian Lake
Berlin
Napoleon
Ecole du Querre
Ecole de Guerre
William Patterson
Carcern
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
Tarbes
Thier
St. Clement's
Metz
Polytechnique
Fontainebleau
Arc de Triomphe
Joffre
Marshaals
Atreche
Ted