The British Army and the First World War

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

The British Army and the First World War
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 May 2017
Pages
482
ISBN
9781107005778

The British Army and the First World War

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

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.

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