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...MARSHALS-Philip Guedalla -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Marshals Historian Philip Guedalla (The Second Empire, The Hundred Days) reports the overlapping lives and military theories of these two unhappy warriors. He points out that the debacle of 1940 was merely a continuation of the debacle of 1870, that the same disintegrating social causes, politics, and even people, were at work in both periods...
...history, The Two Marshals is solemn. But Historian Guedalla is not. He has long picked his way gleefully among history's corpses. But even readers who dislike Guedalla's rather mincing urbanity will value The Two Marshals as a timely study of an important but neglected period of history...
...Bazaine saw with misgivings the Prussian invention of the needle gun, with its immense superiority of fire power. His conclusion: for France defensive war is better than offensive war. "It is better," he said, "to conduct operations systematically (i.e., defensively], as in the Seventeenth Century." "That delusion," says Author Guedalla, "was to cost France the loss of a second...
...went to Sandhurst, which with some difficulty turned him into a cavalry subaltern. Then he went to Cuba, where he acquired a taste for cigars and siestas. He anticipated Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt's visit by two years. "Imagination falters," says Guedalla, "at the possibilities of an encounter on the same terrain...