1914 : fight the good fight : Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War
Title:
1914 : fight the good fight : Britain, the army and the coming of the First World War
Author:
Mallinson, Allan
ISBN:
9780593067604
Publication Information:
London, England : Bantam Press, 2013
Physical Description:
xxii, 503 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer in South Africa, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days' fighting in Flanders.
Subject:
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front |
| Nineteen fourteen, A.D. |
Summary:
Explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer in South Africa, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days' fighting in Flanders.