Steady the Buffs!: A Regiment, a Region, and the Great War

ISBN-13: 9780199278602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 282 str.

Mark Connelly

Opis

Examines the backgrounds and attitudes of officers, men, and their families to the war and looks at its impact on the military and civil community. This book tests the theories about the British army in the war and some of the conclusions of modern military historians.

Recenzje

This book fully revises standard regimental history by establishing the framework and background to the regiment's role in the First World War... Using previously uncovered material, this book adds a significant new chapter to the understanding of the British army on the Western Front, and the way its home community in East Kent reacted to the experience. It reveals the way in which the regiment adjusted to the shock of modern warfare, and the bloody learning curve the Buffs ascended.