Books: Monsieur Foch

FOCH SPEAKS—Major Charles Bugnet —Dial ($3).

During his last eight years the late, great Foch was attended by Aide-de-Camp Bugnet, an efficient, obedient soldier, now an author who tries to reveal not Marshal Foch but Monsieur Foch. From the nature of the man as well as the Boswell, one could scarcely expect a record of daily life and opinions comparable in readability with, for example, Jean Jacques Brousson's record of Foch's brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born...

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