Dying to Learn : : Wartime Lessons from the Western Front / / Michael A. Hunzeker.

In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope with deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British, French, and German armies all pursued the same...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 b&w line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Wartime Learning
  • Chapter 1 Assessment, Command, and Training Theory
  • Chapter 2 Learning on the Western Front
  • Chapter 3 The German Army on the Western Front
  • Chapter 4 The British Army on the Western Front
  • Chapter 5 The French Army on the Western Front
  • Conclusion Alternative Explanations and Policy Implications
  • Notes
  • Index