“It is the first serious attempt made in English (and perhaps the most penetrating in any language) to get at the facts of Foch's career from first to last and to estimate them critically...Everywhere one finds evidence of long, deep, persistent thought, testing and revaluing the old generalisations, and never burking the facts where they point to new ones. Conceived and executed on a large scale, the study seems singularly mature throughout. Nor does it lack vivid and intimate personal touches.”– New Statesman and Nation