Raising and Training the New Armies, by Captain Basil Williams
Author : Basil Williams
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Basil Williams
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Basil Williams
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Military education
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Author : Peter E. Hodgkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317171918
Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General Staff and the front line, this book examines the British army’s commanders at battalion level, via four key questions: (i) How and where resources were found from the small officer corps of 1914 to cope with the requirement for commanding officers (COs) in the expanding army; (ii) What was the quality of the men who rose to command; (iii) Beyond simple overall quality, exactly what qualities were perceived as making an effective CO; and (iv) To what extent a meritocracy developed in the British army by the Armistice. Based upon a prosopographical analysis of a database over 4,000 officers who commanded infantry battalions during the war, the book tackles one of the central historiographical issues pertaining to the war: the qualities of the senior British officer. In so doing it challenges lingering popular conceptions of callous incompetence, as well more scholarly criticism that has derided the senior British officer, but has done so without a data-driven perspective. Through his thorough statistical analysis Dr Peter Hodgkinson adds a valuable new perspective to the historical debate underway regarding the nature of British officers during the extraordinary expansion of the Army between 1914 and 1918, and the remarkable, yet often forgotten, British victories of The Hundred Days.
Author : Ian F W Beckett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1783461837
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during one of the bloodiest wars.
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1918
Category : London (England)
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Bibliography
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Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1473848350
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tanks buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and to the men who fought in it. John Taylors book tells the tale of the tank and her crew and tracks down their descendants to uncover a human story every bit as compelling as the military one.
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1917
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Military art and science
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