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Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff

Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff

Von Lossberg, Fritz
Biedekarken, Dieter J.
Zabecki, David T.

Hardcover

Series: Foreign Military Studies

Biographies GeneralMilitary BiographiesWorld War I

ISBN10: 0813169801
ISBN13: 9780813169804
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

General Fritz von Lossberg (1868-1942) directed virtually all the major German defensive battles on the Western Front during the First World War. Hailed as the Lion of the Defensive, he was an extremely influential military tactician and, unlike many other operations officers of his era, was quick to grasp the changes wrought by technology.

Now available for the first time in English, Lossberg's memoir explains how he developed, tested, and implemented his central principles--flexibility, decentralized control, and counterattack--which were based on a need to adapt to shifting conditions on the battlefield.Lossberg first put his theory of elastic defense combined with defense-in-depth into practice during the Battle of Arras (April-May 1917), where it succeeded. At the Battle of Passchendaele (June-November 1917), his achievements on the field proved the feasibility of his strategy of employing a thinly manned front line that minimized the number of soldiers exposed to artillery fire. Lossberg's tactical modernizations have become essential components of army doctrine, and Lossberg's War: The World War I Memoirs of A German Chief of Staff will take readers inside the mind of one of the most significant military innovators of the twentieth century.

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