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Horatio Herbert Kitchener - British field marshal (1850-1916)

First Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Herbert Kitchener, Kitchener

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Born in County Kerry, Ireland and partly educated in Switzerland, Horatio Herbert Kitchener joined the British Army in 1871.

Roads named after Kitchener and his 'battle'

After three chapters devoted to pre-war planning and the context of political and military authority within which figures like French Generals Joseph Joffre and Ferdinand Foch, and on the British side Horatio Herbert Kitchener and Sir John French would make decisions, the remaining five chapters examine in great detail the deployment of the British Expeditionary Force to France, setbacks during the Battle of the Frontiers, the "Miracle" of the Marne, and the subsequent vicissitudes of the "Race to the Sea," ending with the onset of winter and stalemate all along the front.

Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914

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