The First World War and British Military History

ISBN-13: 9780198222996 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 344 str.

Brian Bond

Opis

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the historiography of the First World War. The First World War remains controversial in its conduct and its broader implications, and this volume explores many issues which continue to cause debate, such as Haig's generalship, the role of T.E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt, and the failure of the Dardanelles campaign. It also examines the new approaches to the war stimulated by the fiftieth anniversaries in the 1960s, and follows them through to contemporary concern with the experiences of ordinary soldiers and their chroniclers.

Recenzje

The individual essays, each written by a leading scholar, are critical and thought provoking. The book is a well-rounded and thorough attempt to explain why, as Peter Simkins points out on the penultimate page ... we go on seeing the First World War as we think it ought to have been, not as it actually was.

Spis treści

I. Establishing the Historical Foundations; II. The Battle of the Memoirs; III. Indirect Approaches; IV. The Great War Rediscovered

O autorze

Bond is the author of British Military Policy Between the Two World Wars (OUP, 1980)