British infantry battalion commanders in the First World War

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Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General Staff and the front line, and to challenge lingering popular conceptions of callous incompetence, this book analyses a database of more than 4,000 officers who c…

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Title Statements

Full title :British infantry battalion commanders in the First World War / Peter E. Hodgkinson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

Notes

Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315570143, 1315570149, 9781317171904, 131717190X, 1317171918, 9781317171911, 1472438264, 9781472438263
DOI:10.4324/9781315570143
oclc:ocn950471507
LC Classification:D546
Dewey Decimal:940.40941

1. Old contemptibles -- 2. Dug-outs -- 3. Attrition and change in command -- 4. Evolution of command in the integrated army -- 5. Hiring and firing -- 6. 'Men to be followed, feared and loved' -- 7. 'Professional men of war' -- 8. The hundred days : meritocracy in command?

Subjects

Armed Forces -- Officers Biographies Case studies Command of troops Command of troops -- Case studies Commandement des troupes -- Études de c… Grande-Bretagne., Army Great Britain., Army History