Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

by Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107633850
• ISBN13: 9781107633858
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 5.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"