The National Review, Volume 70W.H. Allen, 1918 |
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Page 7
... officers and men , to express regret at their absence from Flanders at this juncture . They are keeping their ends up with skill and success often amid discouraging circumstances in trying and wasting climates . Our criticism is of the ...
... officers and men , to express regret at their absence from Flanders at this juncture . They are keeping their ends up with skill and success often amid discouraging circumstances in trying and wasting climates . Our criticism is of the ...
Page 13
... officers 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 ...
... officers 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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... officers , and many guns have been taken by the Italian Second Army . Our Allies have also been successful south of Gorizia , where frowning Hermada confronts them , the naval arm , including British monitors , proving a valuable ...
... officers , and many guns have been taken by the Italian Second Army . Our Allies have also been successful south of Gorizia , where frowning Hermada confronts them , the naval arm , including British monitors , proving a valuable ...
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... officers know far more of the science of this war , and the men themselves now have the skill and bearing of veterans . " He describes his audience of the German Emperor on August 10 , 1914 , at the Royal Palace at Berlin , in the ...
... officers know far more of the science of this war , and the men themselves now have the skill and bearing of veterans . " He describes his audience of the German Emperor on August 10 , 1914 , at the Royal Palace at Berlin , in the ...
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... officers most carefully trained and selected as possess- ing the peculiar qualities required , which are , as regards certain branches of General Staff work , entirely different from those required for the exercise of command in the ...
... officers most carefully trained and selected as possess- ing the peculiar qualities required , which are , as regards certain branches of General Staff work , entirely different from those required for the exercise of command in the ...
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