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...running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal's flank...
...Friendship 7 splashed into the Atlantic with a sizzle as the red-hot shield turned the sea water to steam. Surging ahead at flank speed, the destroyer Noa* began to race helicopters from the carrier Randolph to the scene. The Noa won, plucked the capsule out of the ocean at 3:01. Across the U.S., the TV audience sagged weakly with relief...
...army against an enemy in East Prussia, an area he knew as well as his own estate. With Ludendorff as his chief of staff, Hindenburg proceeded to set the trap for the advancing Russian army, and as they approached the outskirts of Tannenberg, his troops enveloped the left flank, destroying the major part of 4½ corps. This was the most complete German victory of the whole war, and Hindenburg was forever idolized in the minds of Germans as the "hero of Tannenberg...
...Count Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1906, a monocled Prussian with a mind that slashed through argument like a dueling sword. Schlieffen promised victory in six weeks by a massive, right-wing attack that would pivot across Belgium and fall on the flank of the French armies before Paris. Knowing of the scheme, France devised Plan 17, calling for a two-pronged offensive against the German center that would neatly snip off the German right wing and end the war in a hurry. By the spring of 1914, French officers knew what billet...
...crossed, Kluck exposed his flank to the astonished eyes of the French generals. General Joseph ("Papa") Joffre, the French commander, had been regrouping his armies for a stand on the Seine. Now he had to decide whether or not to risk everything with an attack on Kluck. Throughout a long afternoon, Joffre sat in the shade of an ash tree, a ponderous figure in black tunic, baggy red pants, and army-issue boots, and faced the problem. "Gentlemen," he said finally, "we will fight on the Marne...