Word: esperey
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...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. Salonika's gardeners were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But French General Franchet d'Esperey clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of -favor generals. But in 1918, French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of-favor generals. But in 1918 French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead, he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and also wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier...
...until 1918 that the military stalemate ended. That spring the German army in France had launched its "victory offensive," and April in Paris meant shells from Big Bertha dropping in the Tuileries Gardens. The French needed a scapegoat for their setback and chose General Franchet d'Esperey (the British called him "Desperate Frankie"), then commander of the northern armies in France. He was exiled to Macedonia. An egotistical but forceful general, D'Esperey promptly got the 350,000-man force out of its lice-ridden trenches. He struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade, Budapest...
Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...