The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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Page 261
... campaign , and since the unreal French Plan XVII of 1914 had ground to a halt in Lorraine with losses of over 600,000 men , it appeared that only in the open lands of Russian Poland and Galicia could a breakthrough be effected - al ...
... campaign , and since the unreal French Plan XVII of 1914 had ground to a halt in Lorraine with losses of over 600,000 men , it appeared that only in the open lands of Russian Poland and Galicia could a breakthrough be effected - al ...
Page 340
... campaign was touch - and - go for a while until the Luftwaffe's dominance was established . But the best example of the superiority of German military doctrine and operational tactical abil- ity came in the French campaign of May - June ...
... campaign was touch - and - go for a while until the Luftwaffe's dominance was established . But the best example of the superiority of German military doctrine and operational tactical abil- ity came in the French campaign of May - June ...
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... Campaigns of Napoleon , p . 734. For the Austrian army's campaigning - and recuperation- see Rothenberg , Napoleon's ... Campaign of Napoleon , pp . 739ff ; NCMH , vol . 9 , pp . 512ff ; Lobanov - Rostovsky , Russia in Europe , 1789-1825 ...
... Campaigns of Napoleon , p . 734. For the Austrian army's campaigning - and recuperation- see Rothenberg , Napoleon's ... Campaign of Napoleon , pp . 739ff ; NCMH , vol . 9 , pp . 512ff ; Lobanov - Rostovsky , Russia in Europe , 1789-1825 ...
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