The British General Staff : reform and innovation c. 1890-1939 /
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.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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London ; Portland, OR :
F. Cass,
2002.
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| 叢編: | Cass series--military history and policy ;
no. 10. |
| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=122739 |
書本目錄:
- 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.