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Article: Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War.(Book review)
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- Parameters
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- March 22, 2007
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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. By Robert A. Doughty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 578 pages. $39.95. Reviewed by Dennis E. Showalter, Professor of History, Colorado College, and author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century.
France, and the French army in particular, have been increasingly marginalized in the growing body of scholarship on the Great War. To British scholars France is the "Great Other." Sometimes it is the unknown ally, the off-stage factor in a war fundamentally about Britain: its military system, its social structure, its mythology. At other times France becomes ...