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Brian Bond - Britain's Two World Wars against Germany, Inbunden

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Britain's Two World Wars against Germany

Myth, Memory and the Distortions of Hindsight

Av Brian Bond

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Britain's role and performance in the two World Wars continues to generate considerable debate but the wars are rarely considered together. Leading military historian Brian Bond here challenges the popular view of the First World War as catastrophic and futile in contrast to the Second World War as a well-conducted and victorious moral crusade. He focuses on the key issues which have caused controversy and distortion, to demonstrate how these views became deeply rooted in popular culture in the years since 1945. These issues range from policy and strategy, combat experience, the attritional strategies of naval blockade and strategic bombing to British generalship, and gains and losses in the aftermath of both wars. He also considers the learning process of the British Army in both world wars. He boldly concludes that in a number of important respects Britain was more successful in the First World War than in the Second.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-10-23
  • Mått: 155 x 231 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 440 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107004719
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Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History at King's College London, where he has played a leading role in the development of military history in the Department of War Studies from 1966 to 2001. He was president of the British Commission for Military History from 1986 to 2006. He has published numerous books including The Unquiet Western Front (2002) and Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front (2008).

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'Offering a host of shrewd judgments on Britain's military performance in the two world wars, Brian Bond has written an important book on the achievements, the failures and the price paid by Britain and her people for victory in 1918 and 1945.' Jay Winter, editor of The Cambridge History of the First World War and author of Remembering War: The Great War and Historical Memory in the 20th Century

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