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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Beckett, Ian Frederick William (1950-....)
Bowman, Timothy
Connelly, Mark (1970-....)
Titre(s) : The British Army and the First World War [Texte imprimé] / Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, Mark Connelly
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : vii, 476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection : Armies of the Great War
Lien à la collection : Armies of the Great War
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-461) and index
"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" ; "Studies
of the British army's role in the Great War started long before the Armistice as instant
histories were produced of the great battles, but as might be expected these were
driven by largely propagandist aims and so provided little in the way of analytical
insight. During the 1920s the role of the BEF was covered in various works, but was
mostly dominated by the view from the top, which occasionally took the form of overt
point-scoring, as was most famously seen in the memoirs of Lord French and David Lloyd
George"
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Historiographie
Histoire militaire -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945 -- Historiographie
Grande-Bretagne. Army -- Historiographie
Grande-Bretagne. Army. British Expeditionary Force -- Historiographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521183741. - ISBN 052118374X. - ISBN 9781107005778. - ISBN 1107005779
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45312978s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45312978
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
