

Military Book Reviews: March 2015
Chris Miskimon shares with us his military book reviews for March 2015, focusing on World War I, American supercarriers and the Spring 1951 offensive.
by Chris Miskimon
Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
World War I was only days old when German General of the Infantry Hermann von François went forward to view his soldiers engaged in combat south of Stalluponen in East Prussia. It was August 17, 1914, and the Russians were advancing against the outnumbered Germans. François commanded the I Corps of the German 8th Army, and he decided that he could defeat the larger Russian force with his higher quality troops.
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