Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prelude. The first (precise) half of Verdun is a Prelude and opens with a leisurely description of the Western Front and its strategy in 1915, done in a dispassionate tone between solemnity and irony. "The two High Commands had taken the field with a whole dossier of formulas guaranteed to be infallible by such experts as Napoleon or Moltke and perfected by generations of professors in the military art. All this printed accumulation of tactical genius, which ought to have ensured victory in three weeks, turned out to be no less productive of almost immediate defeat - though not car ried...