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    The Memoirs of Marshal Foch

    By Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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    The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied armies, the great strategist who directed the final victory, declined to publish his memoirs during his lifetime. Upon his death, his family at first intended to withhold his manuscript for ten or fifteen years, but the advice of the Marshal’s friends prevailed.

    So this, the final word on the winning of the great war, was released in 1931, just two years after Marshal Foch’s death.

    At first the Marshal planned to write a complete history, but he had neither the time nor the strength to complete so large a work. And it is fortunate for posterity that he did not. Others can collect and collate official documents. We have here what Foch alone could have written, his personal story of the war based solely upon his own experience.

    And it becomes apparent that Foch was not only the great commander and the leading strategist of his time but a writer with a sense of style and a graphic use of words that make his record one of the most moving and dramatic accounts of the great war.

    On certain details Foch’s views may be questioned, but his story of the victory may well be called the final word. Only the leader of ten million men can speak from the vantage of supreme command.

    Special maps prepared by the French War Office, unpublished photographs, and facsimiles of the Armistice are included.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcole Publishing
    Release dateJun 28, 2017
    ISBN9781787206106
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    Marshal Ferdinand Foch

    MARSHAL FERDINAND JEAN MARIE FOCH (2 October 1851 - 20 March 1929) was a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during WWI. He was a commander at the First Marne, Flanders, and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916 and became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in 1918, successfully co-ordinating the French, British, American, and Italian efforts. At the outbreak of WWI, Foch’s XX Corps participated in the brief invasion of Germany and, ordered west to defend Paris, won at the Marne, for which he was widely credited as a chief protagonist while commanding the French Ninth Army. He was then promoted to Assistant Commander-in-Chief for the Northern Zone, a role which evolved into command of Army Group North and required him to cooperate with the British forces at Ypres and the Somme. At the end of 1916 Foch was transferred to Italy. He was made Commander-in-Chief of Western Front (Généralissime) and appointed “Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies” in 1918. He played a decisive role in halting a renewed German advance on Paris in the Second Battle of the Marne, after which he was promoted to Marshal of France. Foch died in Paris in 1929 aged 77. COLONEL THOMAS BENTLEY MOTT, S.S., D.S.M., L.M. (May 16, 1865 - December, 1952) was a decorated American army officer. Born in Leesburgh, Virginia, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1886. He was commissioned and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1911 and was Colonel of the National Army and then the U.S. Army in 1918. He was commended in orders for gallantry and services in the Manila campaign. He was the Liaison Officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing, the latter being his lifelong friend. He was a military attaché to the American Embassy in Paris from 1919-1930. He died in Biarritz, France in 1952 aged 87.

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