British General Staff (eBook, PDF)

Reform and Innovation
Redaktion: French, David; Reid, Brian Holden

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II. They trace the changes in the staff that influenced British military strategy and subsequent operations on the battlefield.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135773946
• Artikelnr.: 42982990

Autorenporträt

Vivienne Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Brian Bond
military historian
Brian Holden Reid; planning for war in the final years of pax Britannica
1889-1903
Halik Kochanski; towards a ministry of defence - first faltering steps
1890-1923
John Sweetman; selection by disparagement - Lord Esher
the general staff and the politics of command
1904-14
Ian F.W. Beckett; Lord Kitchener
the general staff and the army in India
1902-214
Timothy Moreman; the British army
its general staff and the continental commitment
1904-14
Hew Strachan; the general staff and the paradoxes of continental war
William Philpott; the Australians at Pozieres - command and control on the Somme
1916
G.D. Sheffield; the British general staff and Japan
1918-41
Philip Towle; J.F.C. Fuller - staff officer extraordinary
A.J. Trythall; an extensive use of weedkiller - patterns of promotion in the senior ranks of the British army
1919-39
David French; the British general staff and the coming of war
1933-39
J.P. Harris; a particularly Anglo-Saxon institution - the British general staff in the era of two world wars
John Gooch.