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Author : Brian N. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170551
This book reveals the impact of communications on the military operations of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
Author : Chris Kempshall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319894652
This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause. Using the diaries, records, and letters of these men, Chris Kempshall shows how these soldiers interacted with each other during four years of war. The British army that arrived in France in 1914 became isolated from their French allies and unable to coordinate with them. By 1916, Britain’s professional soldiers were replaced by civilians who learned to love their French ally, who reached out to them in friendship. At the end of the war the introduction of American soldiers caused hope and conflict before perceived British failures brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. Final cooperation between these three nations saw them victorious.
Author : Andrew Rawson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780750958653
An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the ‘Old Contemptibles’ – the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war – to the Territorials, the ‘Derby Men’, Kitchener’s ‘New Army’ and the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser’s armies four years later. Andrew Rawson examines the impressive contributions made by the Dominions and the Empire and explores aspects of doctrine, training, communications, strategy and tactics, together with divisional organisations, histories and the roles of the different Arms and Services. He reviews all aspects of the soldier’s everyday life – uniforms, equipment, rations, trench life, leave and military discipline – and profiles the commanders and the legacy of the war in art, as well as providing information on cemeteries and places of interest. It is all here, in one book.
Author : T.H.E. Travers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134902699
This important and sometimes controversial book explains what part the British Expeditionary Force played in bringing the First World War to an end. Travers focuses on the themes of command and technology, drawing on a wide range of sources.
Author : Timothy T. Lupfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UCR:31210004670269
This paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine. Besides providing a summary of German Infantry tactics of the First World War, this study offers insight into the crucial role of leadership in facilitating doctrinal change during battle. It reminds us that success in war demands extensive and vigorous training calculated to insure that field commanders understand and apply sound tactical principles as guidelines for action and not as a substitute for good judgment. It points out the need for a timely effort in collecting and evaluating doctrinal lessons from battlefield experience. --Abstract.
Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Author : Paul Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134808175
During the Allied victory celebrations there were few who chose to raise a glass to the staff. The high cost of casualties endured by the British army tarnished the reputation of the military planners, which has yet to recover. This book examines the work and development of the staff of the British army during the First World War and its critical role in the military leadership team. Their effectiveness was germane to the outcome of events in the front line but not enough consideration has been paid to this level of command and control, which has largely been overshadowed by the debate over generalship. This has painted an incomplete picture of the command function. Characterised as arrogant, remote and out of touch with the realities of the front line, the staff have been held responsible for the mismanagement of the war effort and profligate loss of lives in futile offensives. This book takes a different view. By using their letters and diaries it reveals fresh insights into their experience of the war. It shows that the staff made frequent visits to the front line and were no strangers to combat or hostile fire. Their work is also compared with their counterparts in the French and German armies, highlighting differences in practice and approach. In so doing, this study throws new light upon the characteristics, careers and working lives of these officers, investigating the ways in which they both embraced and resisted change. This offers evidence both for those who wish to exonerate the British command system on the basis of the learning process but also for those critical of its performance, thus advancing understanding of British military history in the First World War.
Author : Gary Sheffield,Peter Gray
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441101259
In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the Royal Air Force, the world's first independent air service, from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Until recently, British histories of the First World War have tended to concentrate on the earlier battles of 1916 and 1917 and often underplayed this vitally important period. Changing War fills this significant gap in our knowledge by providing in-depth examinations of key aspects of the operations of the British Army, the Royal Air Force and its antecedents in the climactic year of the First World War. Written by a group of established historians and emerging scholars it sheds light not only on 1918, but on the revolutionary changes in warfare that took place at that time.
Author : Herbert Howland Sargent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Strategy
ISBN : WISC:89100102524
Author : William J. Philpott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349245116
This book is a study of Anglo-French relations and military policy making in the First World War, which considers the strategic policies and operational planning of the British and French armies in the joint campaign fought on the western front. It examines the influence of incompatible British and French strategic objectives, the role of the allies' military and political leaders and the institutional development of the military alliance, on the alliance relationship and military policy making.
Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079343730
A compelling insight into the lives of the soliders behind the war that not only changed the direction of World affairs but also brought with it a modernised, mechanised style of warfare.
Author : Ian Beckett,Timothy Bowman,Mark Connelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107005778
A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.
Author : G. D. Sheffield,Daniel Todman
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Command of troops
ISBN : 186227083X
The popular perception of callous, incompetent generals presiding over the bloody, futile attacks of World War I has been proved to be simplistic. A team of leading historians provides fresh assessments of key figures, such as Haig.
Author : Sir James Edward Edmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : CHI:19855248
Author : Mark Humphries,John Maker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554583959
This multi-volume series in six parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germany’s experience on the Western front. Recorded in the words of its official historians, this account is vital to the study of the war and official memory in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Although exciting new sources have been uncovered in former Soviet archives, this work remains the basis of future scholarship. It is essential reading for any scholar, graduate student, or enthusiast of the Great War. This volume, the second to be published, covers the outbreak of war in July–August 1914, the German invasion of Belgium, the Battles of the Frontiers, and the pursuit to the Marne in early September 1914. The first month of war was a critical period for the German army and, as the official history makes clear, the German war plan was a gamble that seemed to present the only solution to the riddle of the two-front war. But as the Moltke-Schlieffen Plan was gradually jettisoned through a combination of intentional command decisions and confused communications, Germany’s hopes for a quick and victorious campaign evaporated.