This review was submitted to Soldier Magazine.
Title: Lost
Opportunities: The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914
Author:
Simon J House
ISBN:
978-1- 911096-42-9
Publisher:
Helion
Year:
2017
Hardcover
Pages: 252
Photos/
Maps: 36/59 (in separate included book)
The author has undertaken an outstanding analysis of the French efforts
to disrupt the German Schlieffen Plan by striking at the hinge of the German
advance in the Ardennes. Despite achieving both tactical and operational
surprise and having heavy numerical superiority, the French failed utterly in
their endeavours. His book reviews the battles themselves, the qualities and
competencies of the four key commanders involved (two German and two French) at
the operational level as well as the doctrinal and training policies of Germany
and France in the years leading up to the war. A superb study and a publication
of the highest quality.
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