The British Army and the First World War

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Label

The British Army and the First World War

Statement of responsibility

Ian Beckett, University of Kent, Canterbury, Timothy Bowman, University of Kent, Canterbury, Mark Connelly, University of Kent, Canterbury

Creator

• Beckett, I. F. W., (Ian Frederick William)

Contributor

• Bowman, Timothy
• Connelly, Mark

Author

• Bowman, Timothy
• Connelly, Mark

Subject

• Great Britain, Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography
• Great Britain, Army | British Expeditionary Force -- History -- World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography

Language

eng

Summary

This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.--

Member of

• Armies of the Great War

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Armies of the Great War
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks