Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
Robert A. Doughty, . . Harvard/Belknap, $39.95 (578pp) ISBN 978-0-674-01880-8
This well-written, exhaustively researched history of France's role in WWI adds a French perspective not often found in English-language literature on these seminal military events. Explicating France's "grand strategy... [of] waging a multifront war against the Central Powers," West Point history department head Doughty (
Reviewed on: 09/26/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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