Middle-aged veterans of the Great War came by the thousands to pay respect to the commander who had, after a series of mutinies by desperate French soldiers on the western front, resisted further massive infantry offensives against entrenched German positions. ... If the French..…

properly executed Gallipoli Campaign could have ended the war by 1915 and Germany could have been defeated from the east, as Macedonian of French Gen. The only bilingual general on Entente side was French Robert Nivelle, who became the commander-in-chief on Western Front..…

Still, John Keegan, the late distinguished British historian, points out that Americans in force was deeply depressing to Germans, trounced Italians and Romanians, demoralized French and, at the very least, denied British clear-cut victory... For his part, von Hindenburg, Germany's military..…