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9 produkter
The Edwardian Army
Recruiting, Training, and Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 621 kr
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The period 1902-1914 was one of great change for the British army. The experience of the South African War (1899-1902) had been a profound shock and it led to a period of intense introspection in order to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the force. As a result of a series of investigations and government-led reorganisation, the army embarked on a series of reforms to improve its recruitment, standards of professionalism, training, and preparation for war. Until now many of the studies covering this period have tended to look at the army in a top-down manner, and have often concluded that the reform process was extremely beneficial to the army leading it to be the most efficient force in Europe by the outbreak of war in 1914. Bowman and Connelly take a different approach. The Edwardian Army takes a bottom-up perspective and examines the many difficulties the army experienced trying to incorporate the reforms demanded by government and the army's high command. It reveals that although many good ideas were devised, the severely overstretched army was never in a position to act on them and that few regimental officers had the opportunity, or even the desire, to change their approach. Unable to shake-off the feeling that the army's primary purpose was to garrison and police the British Empire, it was by no means as well prepared for European continental warfare as many have presumed.
355 kr
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This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.
362 kr
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The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto focused on the 312 notorious ‘shot at dawn’ cases, many thousands of British soldiers were tried by court martial during the Great War.This book provides the first comprehensive study of discipline and morale in the British Army during the Great War by using a case study of the Irish regular and Special Reserve batallions. In doing so, Timothy Bowman demonstrates that breaches of discipline did occur in the Irish regiments but in most cases these were of a minor nature. Controversially, he suggests that where executions did take place, they were militarily necessary and served the purpose of restoring discipline in failing units. Bowman also shows that there was very little support for the emerging Sinn Fein movement within the Irish regiments.This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader concerned with how units maintain discipline and morale under the most trying conditions.
1 195 kr
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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913, as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period, considering in detail the composition of the officer corps, the marked regional recruiting differences, the ideologies involved, the arming and equipping of the UVF and the contingency plans made by UVF Headquarters in the event of Home Rule being imposed on Ulster. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and less well-trained, with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed, and suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914.This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in modern paramilitary forces.
364 kr
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The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913, as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period considering in detail the composition of the officer corps, the marked regional recruiting differences, the ideologies involved, the arming and equipping of the UVF and the contingency plans made by UVF Headquarters in the event of Home Rule being imposed on Ulster. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and worse trained, with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed, and suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914.This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in modern paramilitary forces.
1 410 kr
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This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.
Disparity of Sacrifice
Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 936 kr
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During the First World Warapproximately 210,000 Irish men and a much smaller, but significant,number of Irish women served in the Britisharmed forces. All were volunteers and a very high proportion were from Catholicand Nationalist communities. This book is the first comprehensive analysis ofIrish recruitment between 1914 and 1918 for the island of Ireland as awhole. It makes extensive use of previously neglected internal Britisharmy recruiting returns held at The National Archives, Kew, along with other valuablearchival and newspaper sources.There has been a tendency todiscount the importance of political factors in Irish recruitment, but thisbook demonstrates that recruitment campaigns organised under the auspices ofthe Irish National Volunteers and Ulster Volunteer Force were the earliest andsome of the most effective campaigns run throughout the war. The Britishgovernment conspicuously failed to create an effective recruiting organisationor to mobilise civic society in Ireland. While the military mobilisation whichoccurred between 1914 and 1918 was the largest in Irish history, British officialspersistently characterised it as inadequate, threatening to introduceconscription in 1918.This book also reflects on the disparity of sacrifice betweenNorth-East Ulster and the rest of Ireland, urban and rural Ireland, and Irelandand Great Britain.
Disparity of Sacrifice
Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
597 kr
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During the First World Warapproximately 210,000 Irish men and a much smaller, but significant,number of Irish women served in the Britisharmed forces. All were volunteers and a very high proportion were from Catholicand Nationalist communities. This book is the first comprehensive analysis ofIrish recruitment between 1914 and 1918 for the island of Ireland as awhole. It makes extensive use of previously neglected internal Britisharmy recruiting returns held at The National Archives, Kew, along with other valuablearchival and newspaper sources.There has been a tendency todiscount the importance of political factors in Irish recruitment, but thisbook demonstrates that recruitment campaigns organised under the auspices ofthe Irish National Volunteers and Ulster Volunteer Force were the earliest andsome of the most effective campaigns run throughout the war. The Britishgovernment conspicuously failed to create an effective recruiting organisationor to mobilise civic society in Ireland. While the military mobilisation whichoccurred between 1914 and 1918 was the largest in Irish history, British officialspersistently characterised it as inadequate, threatening to introduceconscription in 1918.This book also reflects on the disparity of sacrifice betweenNorth-East Ulster and the rest of Ireland, urban and rural Ireland, and Irelandand Great Britain.
Del 40 - Publications of the Army Records Society
Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
982 kr
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Key documents relating to Auchinleck's career up to the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942, including his time as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and of the Middle East Theatre.The outbreak of war in 1939 saw the then Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck recalled to England to take command of the newly formed 4 Corps. Between April and June 1940 he commanded British troops in the ill-fated Norway campaign. He then returned to the UK to take command of 5 Corps in Southern Command during the invasion threat of 1940. In January 1941 Auchinleck returned to India and started some much needed reforms of what was still, very much, a 'colonial army' before becoming C in C Middle East in June 1941. In the Middle East, Auchinleck faced many challenges in commanding a multi-national force, largely composed of 'citizen soldiers' and his problems were complicated by the demands of Winston Churchill, an anxious Prime Minister who desperately wanted to show his allies and the British public a major victory. Auchinleck is open to the charges that he did not fully understand armoured warfare and that he appointed a number of the wrong men to key posts. However, he did manage to fight Axis forces to a standstill at the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942 before being replaced by the team of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander and General Bernard Montgomery. This volume is based on the Auchinleck papers held in the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester and aims to bring these important records to a much wider audience.