Excerpt from Nelson's History of the War, Vol. 15: Brussilov's Offensive and the Intervention of Rumania But no great plan can be followed to the letter, and the man who sticks too rigidly to a programme is not a soldier but a pedant. During May it was becoming clear that Italy might be SO hard pressed that She would have to use in defence all the re sources which She had allotted to her Share in the joint Offensive. The date for the main movement was not put forward. But it was resolved to use the new might Of Russia in a preliminary attack to ease the pressure on Italy, and to make a recon naissance on a wide front of the enemy strength in the East. At the Same time all was put in readiness to follow up any successes that might be gained, and to merge, Should it seem desirable, the pre liminary attack In the main operation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.