| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 246 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cass series--military history and policy,
1465-8488 ;
10
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Cass series--military history and policy ; no. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Brian Bond, military historian / Brian Holden Reid -- Planning for war in the final years of Pax Britannica, 1889-1903 / Halik Kochanski -- Towards a Ministry of Defence: first faltering steps, 1890-1923 / John Sweetman -- 'Selection by disparagement': Lord Esher, the General Staff and the politics of command, 1904-14 / Ian F.W. Beckett -- Lord Kitchener, the General Staff and the army in India, 1902-14 / Timothy Moreman -- The British Army, its General Staff and the continental commitment, 1904-14 / Hew Strachan -- The General Staff and the paradoxes of continental war / William Philpott -- The Australians at Pozières: command and control on the Somme, 1916 / G.D. Sheffield -- The British General Staff and Japan, 1918-41 / Philip Towle -- J.F.C. Fuller: staff officer extraordinary / A.J. Trythall -- 'An extensive use of weedkiller': patterns of promotion in the senior ranks of the British Army, 1919-39 / David French -- The British General Staff and the coming of war, 1933-39 / J.P. Harris -- 'A particularly Anglo-Saxon institution': the British General Staff in the era of two world wars / John Gooch. |
| Summary |
The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. General Staff -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. Army. General Staff. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. General Staff -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
French, David, 1954-
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Reid, Brian Holden.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: British General Staff. London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2002 071465325X (DLC) 2002026782 (OCoLC)50091768 |
| ISBN |
0203018087 (electronic book) |
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9780203018088 (electronic book) |
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071465325X (cloth) |
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