British infantry battalion commanders in the First World War
Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its, 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 bet...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey
Ashgate
[2015]
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| Series: | Ashgate studies in First World War history
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Table of Contents:
- 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?