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

Professor Ian Beckett is now Honorary Professor at the University of Kent, having retired from there as Professor of Military History in 2015. His many publications include The Making of the First World War (2012), The Great War, 2nd edition (2007), Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 (2006), The First World War: The Essential Guide to Sources in the UK National Archives (2002) and, edited with Keith Simpson, the pioneering A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (1985). He is a past chairman of the Army Records Society, and is secretary of the Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust.

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.