COURAGE WITHOUT GLORY: THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1915
Written by Spencer Jones
Published by Helion & Company
in 2015
ISBN: 9781910777183
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- ARMY
COURAGE WITHOUT GLORY: THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1915
Written by Spencer Jones.
Stock no. 1829783
1st.
2015.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A fresh and insightful evaluation of the experience of the British Army through a sereies of 15 thematic essays examining the strategic, operational, tactical and logistical problems that shaped the fighting. Edited by Spencer Jones. Burgundy cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 448 pages including index. ISBN: 9781910777183. Glue has dried visibly during binding process to gutter edge of front pastedown, less visible to rear pastedown. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. Else a lovely copy.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor's Preface
- Foreword by Professor Brian Bond
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Forgotten Year Spencer Jones
- 1 "To make war as we must, and not as we should like": The British Army and the Problem of the Western Front, 1915
- Spencer Jones
- 2 The Supply of Munitions to the Army, 1915
- John Mason Sneddon
- 3 Friends Disunited: Johnnie French, Wully Robertson and 'K of K' in 1915
- John Spencer
- 4 Henry Horne as Divisional Commander
- 5 The BEF Takes OFF: The Royal Flying Corps, 1915
- Peter Hart
- 6 British-Indian Army Cavalry: From Mobilisation to the Western Front 1915
- Graham Winton
- 7 Douglas Haig and the Planning of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle
- Patrick Watt
- 8 Inescapable Realities: Canadian Command, Spring 1915
- Kenneth Radley
- 9 Death of a Battalion: The 5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at the Second Battle of Ypres
- Tom Williams
- 10 The Battle of Festubert
- Robert Williams
- 11 "Seven Days in Hell": The 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment at the Battle of Festubert, May 1915
- Adrian Gregson
- 12 "A Coda to the Second Battle of Ypres": International Trench, 6-10 July 1915
- Michael LoCicero
- 13 "A Great Victory All But Gained": The Battle of Loos, 1915
- Brian Curragh
- 14 8th Division and the Action at Bois Grenier, 25 September 1915
- Alun Thomas
- 15 Gas, Grenades and Grievances: The Attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt by 46th (North Midland) Division, 13 October 1915
- Michael Woods
- Index