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242 Military Bureaucracy and Revolution 304 Edwards's Canons of Criticism 71 An Eighteenth - Century Hippocrates 453 Sir William Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff The Industrial Unrest Commission 323 Trade Unions 002 ...
242 Military Bureaucracy and Revolution 304 Edwards's Canons of Criticism 71 An Eighteenth - Century Hippocrates 453 Sir William Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff The Industrial Unrest Commission 323 Trade Unions 002 ...
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We merely play his game when we pit the precious lives of Englishmen against those of Turks or Bulgars , whom the German General Staff joyfully stakes against us . Germany might lose every Side Show and still win the war were she ...
We merely play his game when we pit the precious lives of Englishmen against those of Turks or Bulgars , whom the German General Staff joyfully stakes against us . Germany might lose every Side Show and still win the war were she ...
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Anyhow it looks like a case of L.G.M.G. POLITICAL intrigue can do nothing to win the war , whether directed against the General Staff under Sir William Robertson or at the great Army in France under Sir Douglas Haig .
Anyhow it looks like a case of L.G.M.G. POLITICAL intrigue can do nothing to win the war , whether directed against the General Staff under Sir William Robertson or at the great Army in France under Sir Douglas Haig .
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... are trained to despise , we realize how different things are to what they were when Bismarck , von Roon , and von Moltke were placing the German Empire and the General Staff on the pinnacle from which they are now being deposed .
... are trained to despise , we realize how different things are to what they were when Bismarck , von Roon , and von Moltke were placing the German Empire and the General Staff on the pinnacle from which they are now being deposed .
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... the first - rate Staff work to which we owe the most brilliant coups , the improved railway system to which Sir Eric Geddes has made invaluable contribution , the wonderful organization of road transport , and , above > all ...
... the first - rate Staff work to which we owe the most brilliant coups , the improved railway system to which Sir Eric Geddes has made invaluable contribution , the wonderful organization of road transport , and , above > all ...
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