Falkenhayn
joined
Falkenhayn succeeded Moltke as Chief of the General Staff of the German Army after the Battle of the Marne on 14 September 1914. Confronted with the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, he attempted to outflank the British and French in the "Race to the Sea", a series of engagements throughout northern France and Belgium in which each side tried to turn the other's flank until they reached the coastline. The British and French eventually stopped the Germans at the First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914). Falkenhayn staged a massive battle of attrition, as claimed in his post-war memoires, at Verdun in early 1916. Although more than a quarter of a million soldiers eventually died – for which Falkenhayn was sometimes called "the Blood-Miller of Verdun" – neither side's resolve was lessened. After the failure at Verdun, coupled with several reverses in the east and incessant lobbying by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, Falkenhayn was replaced as Chief of Staff by Hindenburg.[Source: Wikipedia]
Title: L'Entente Cordiale 1915
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Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC , former owner
Date Created/Published: [S.l. : s.n., [1915]
Medium: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 55 x 45 cm.
Summary: Depiction of Britain as a spider, German eagle sitting overhead, Uncle Sam and two others tied up in web in background. The Entente Cordiale was a diplomatic agreement signed in 1904 by France and Great Britain which adjusted the colonial disputes between the two countries, and paved the way for Anglo-French co-operation against German expansion in Europe and in the colonial world.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-3998 (color film copy slide)
Call Number: POS - Fr. A01, no. 37 (B size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
Translation of title: Translation of title: L'Entente Cordiale of 1915.
Signed with unidentified logo.
Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.
Promotional goal: Fr. J49. 1915.
Item is no. 155 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
[Source: Library of Congress]