Ian Passingham for Sutton This is in many ways similar to Anthony Clayton’s Paths Of Glory which covers the French army in World War One. Passingham instead deals with the Germans. The themes are therefore much different from our usual World War One book. Here the villains are Falkenhayn (to a degree) and Ludendorf. The more I read of Erich the more he sounds like a wargamer – no idea what to do so let’s launch an attack. The background is not the need to learn (as it was for the Allies) but the grinding effect of the Blockade. The undoubted horrors of the Somme and Third Ypres sound differently where it is not the repeated attacks that are criticised, but the repeated counter-attacks and the milling effect of these long Allied combats. If the Germans had a good time in 1914 and 1915 even “victories” were disastrous in later years. Passingham is not an academic. This is a big print and lots of picture book, but it is also rather interesting in looking at our much beloved sights from another direction. Old Duffer's Book Corner Book Reviews The First Armies Verdun 1916 Russia's Civil War Luetzen 1632 Philip V of Spain The End of Chivalry Le Roi De Guerre Warships of the Napoleonic Era Cannae The Death of Anglo-Saxon England Ancient Siege Warfare War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 Forgotten Victory The Remaking of the English Navy Cassino: The Hollow Victory Raising Churchill's Army The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy The Irish And British Wars 1637-1654 Cavaliers: The Royalist Army At War 1642-1646 Alamein Normandy 1944 Hill 112 Breaking The Panzers Béveziers (1690) Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18 Caesar’s Legion Operation Bluecoat Operation Epsom Marching to the Sound of Gunfire The Franco-Prussian War Robert the Bruce’s Irish Wars When Titans Clashed The Wars of Edward III Monte Cassino Under Fire The Somme Roads to Falaise Mud, Blood And Poppycock All The Kaiser’s Men Iron Hulls Iron Hearts A Noble Crusade The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood The English Resistance The Battle of Koniggrätz Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #104 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com