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Title: Foch the Man
A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies

Author: Clara E. Laughlin

Release Date: January 14, 2006 [eBook #17511]

Language: English

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FOCH THE MAN

A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies

by

CLARA E. LAUGHLIN

With Appreciation by Lieut.-Col. Edouard Requin
of the French High Commission to the United States

With Illustrations

Revised and Enlarged Edition

[Frontispiece: Marshal Foch at the Peace Conference.]

New York -------- Chicago
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1918, 1919, by
Fleming H. Revell Company
First Printing - November 11, 1918
Second Printing - November 19, 1918
Third Printing - November 29, 1918
Fourth Printing - December 7, 1918
Fifth Printing - January 9, 1919
Sixth Printing - May 1, 1919

DEDICATION

TO THE MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT UNDER GENERAL
FOCH'S COMMAND. TO ALL Of THEM, IN ALL
GRATITUDE. BUT IN AN ESPECIAL WAY TO THE MEN
OF THE 42D DIVISION, THE SPLENDOR OF
WHOSE CONDUCT ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1914,
NO PEN WILL EVER BE ABLE
ADEQUATELY TO COMMEMORATE.

[Illustration: Hand-written letter from Foch.]

[Illustration: Page 1 of hand-written letter from Lt.-Colonel E. Requin
to Clara Laughlin.]

[Illustration: Page 2 of hand-written letter from Lt.-Colonel E. Requin
to Clara Laughlin.]

[Transcriber's note: The letter in the second and third illustrations
is shown translated on the following page.]

Dear MADEMOISELLE LAUGHLIN:

I have read with the keenest interest your sketch of the life of
Marshal Foch. It is not yet history: we are too close to events to
write it now,