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The killing ground : the British Army, the western front, and the emergence of modern warfare, 1900-1918 / Tim Travers

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Travers, Timothy
Published
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART IUnderstanding the Edwardian Army; 1 The System at Work: Promotions, Dismissals and the Personalized Army; 2 The Cult of the Offensive and the Psychological Battlefield; 3 Morale, Fire-power and Technology, c.1900-1918; PART IIUnderstanding Command:the Evolution of a Commander-in-Chief; 4 Douglas Haig, the Staff College, and the Continuity of Ideas; 5 The Personality of Douglas Haig and the Role of GHQ; PART IIIA Case Study: the Somme, 1916; 6 Preparing the Somme. and 7 Action at the Somme, July-November 1916PART IVRemembrance and Recrimination; 8 The Official History, the Somme, and the Planning of Passchendaele; 9 The German Offensive of March 1918, the Official Historyand the Problem of Command; Epilogue: 1918 and the Franco-German-British Armies inComparison; Maps; Appendix I Brigadier General Sandilands's account of the period25 March 1918 to 28 March 1918; Appendix II Biographies of senior officers; Select Bibliography; Index.
Summary
This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable?Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs and Cabinet and War Office files, Professor Travers explains how and why the ideas, tactics and strategies emerged. He emphasises the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the ear.
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ISBN
9781473800113 (electronic bk.)
1473800110 (electronic bk.)
9781473819436 (electronic bk.)
1473819431 (electronic bk.)
9781844158898
1844158896
Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-303) and index.
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