Download or read book The German General Staff and Its Decisions, 1914-1916 (Classic Reprint) written by General von Falkenhayn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The German General Staff and Its Decisions, 1914-1916 This book is written in memory of all those who gave their lives and of those who suffered for the Fatherland. It will not praise their deeds in detail. It needs no herald for those who are living and want to see, and a stronger voice than mine will render to the coming generations the sublime song of German self-sacrifice, of German loyalty, and of German heroism in grave but glorious days. But the book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the two years of the war when I was at the head of the General Staff. My statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense of the world. They touch upon the events of the war, and other occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary to justify the decisions of the General Staff. They are not written for or against anybody. A judgment is only given, or a deduction made, where it seemed unavoidable in order to explain my actions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.