Falkenhayn, resented the transfer of every one. He believed that the war had to be won by making the major effort in the west. There the French army was recovering from its losses of the opening campaign—thirty-three new divisions were forming—while French industry was gearing up for a war of material. The British were creating a whole new army of volunteers, while training their peace-time militia, the Territorial Force, for active service; together these would produce nearly sixty divisions, besides those from Canada and Australia which were hastening across the Atlantic and Pacific to the
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