The British Army and the First World War
Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, Mark Connelly
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2017
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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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- Title
- The British Army and the First World War
- Author
- Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, Mark Connelly
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, GB
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 052118374X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521183741
- Item weight
- 700 grams
- Series
- Book 4 of 5: Armies of the Great War
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About the Author
Dr Timothy Bowman is Senior Lecturer in Modern British Military History at the University of Kent, where he teaches on the BA Military History and MA First World War Studies programmes. He is the author of Irish Regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale (2003), Carson's Army: The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910–22 (2007) and, with Mark Connelly, The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training and Deploying the British Army, 1902–1914 (2012). He is Secretary of the Army Records Society.
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent, where he runs the interdisciplinary MA programme, First World War Studies. His main research interests are in the fields of modern military history, war and commemoration, and the public image of the armed forces. He is Director of the AHRC-funded centre for public engagement with the Great War centenary, Gateways to the First World War, and is lead convenor of the War, Society and Culture seminar programme at the Institute of Historical Research. He is also a consultant to the BBC's World War One at Home project and is a member of the government's schools battlefields tours project run by the Institute of Education, as well as being a member of the advisory committee for the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War and the National Archive's Operation War Diary projects. He is currently researching the nature of Ypres as a memory site, working in close collaboration with the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper/Ypres. Among his publications are The Great War: Memory and Ritual; Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region and the Great War; The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training and Deploying the British Army, 1902–1914 (with Tim Bowman); and Creating Celluloid Memorials: British Instructional Films and the Memory of the First World War.
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