strategy-kitchener's

Updated: January 25, 2026

We have been fighting a force ten times superior in numbers, and retreating, doing rear-guard action, whether we were really outfought or not to draw the Germans where Joffre wants them. I reckon we've got them there. It is great strategy-Kitchener's, you know."

Mildred Aldrich - A Hilltop on the Marne : Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914