Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, Mark Connelly

The British Army and the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a major new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly examine the army's strengths and weaknesses between 1914 and 1918 from recruitment, training, discipline and morale, to strategy and operations across all theatres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781107005778
• ISBN-10: 1107005779
• Artikelnr.: 48498494

Autorenporträt

My LinkedIn blog is called Don't Panic and can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6897507671990484992/ My Medium blog can be found at https://medium.com/@ian-beckett

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The pre-war army
2. The Officer Corps
3. A nation in arms: regulars, TF, volunteers and conscripts
4. Citizen soldiers: discipline, morale and the experience of war
5. British strategy and the British army
6. The Western Front, 1914
7. The Western Front, 1915
8. The Western Front, 1916
9. The Western Front, 1917
10. The Western Front, 1918
11. Beyond the Western Front
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.