Name: AT ALL COSTS: THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1916
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AT ALL COSTS: THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1916

by Spencer Jones

Published by Helion & Company Ltd. 1st. 2018

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Wolverhampton Military Studies No. 30. Bringing together leading scholars of the First World War to examine the experience of the British Army in this controversial year. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 517 pages including index. A deceivingly heavy tome!

Minimal shelf bumping to spine.

ISBN: 9781912174881
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ARMY

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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword by Professor Peter Simkins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Endless Battle
1. The Battle of the Somme and British War Plans 1916 (Stephen Badsey)
2. The Puppetmaster: Sir William Robertson as CIGS in 1916 (John Spencer)
3. Douglas Haig and the Somme (Andrew Wiest)
4. British Intelligence and the Battle of Verdun (Jim Beach)
5. The Changing Nature of Supply: Transportation in the BEF during the Battle of the Somme (Christopher Phillips)
6. Lessons Unlearned: The Somme Preparatory Bombardment 24 June-1 July 1916 (Bill MacCormick)
7. "The Battle in Miniature": THE BEF and the Art of Trench Raiding 1916 (John Pratt)
8. "I shall hope ot try and officer and at least one corporal for cowardice": The German Trench Raid at La Boisselle, 11 April 1916 and the British Response (Michael LoCicero)
9. Henry Horne as Corps Commander on the Somme (Simon Innes-Robbins)
10. XIII Corps and the Attack at Montauban, 1 July 1916 (Spencer Jones)
11. French XX Corps and Preparations for the Somme Offensive (Tim Gale)
12. Learning from Defeat: 32nd Division and 1 July 1916 (Stuart Mitchell)
13. Corporation on the Somme: The Application of Firepower on Pozieres Ridge (Meleah Hampton)
14. Lessons and Legacy: Notes on 1st Canadian Division Attack, Regina Trench, 9 October 1916 (Kenneth Radley)
15. Early Tank Tactical Doctrine and Training (Philip Ventham)
16. "A Ragged Business": Officer Training Corps, Public Schools and the Recruitment of the Junior Officers Corps of 1916 (Timothy Halstead)
17. Infantry Battalion Command on the Somme 1 July-18 November 1916 (Peter Hodgkinson)
18. Muddy Grave? The German army at the end of 1916 (Tony Cowan)
19. Ripples of the Somme: Commemorating and Remembering the Battle, 1919-2016 (Mark Connelly)
20. The Somme: War Memoirs and Personal Memories (Brian Bond)
Index