German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
Subtitle: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 18701916 (Cambridge Military Histories)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521044363
Subjects: Defence strategy, planning & research; European history: First World War; History of specific subjects; First World War, 1914-1918; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - Germany; Military - Strategy; Military - World War I; History / Europe / General; Europe - General
First sentence: In a lecture to the Military Society in Berlin in 1888, Major August Keim of the Kriegsakademie (War Academy) gave his view of German military thinking near the close of the nineteenth century.