The chiefs : the story of the United Kingdom chiefs of staff / by Sir William Jackson and Lord Bramall
1992, First Edition. London ; Washington New York, N.Y : Brassey's. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #478957
ISBN: 0080403700
Physical description; xxii, 508 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-477) and index. Contents; The quest for military efficiency without loss of political control: Cardwell, Carnarvon and Hartington, 1868-99 -- The rise and fall of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Elgin, Esher, Haldane and Churchill, 1899-1914 -- Easterner 'frocks' versus Westerner 'brass': Asquith, Kitchener and Churchill, 1914-16 -- Political dictatorship versus professional judgement: Lloyd George, Jellicoe and Robertson, 1917-18 -- The birth of the Chiefs of Staff Committee: the ten year rule and disarmament, 1919-33 -- Appeasement and the drift to war: the Chiefs versus the Treasury, 1934-39 -- Churchill's chiefs: containing the threat, September 1939 - December 1941 -- The triumph of the Combined Chiefs of Staff: the coalition war, 1942-45 -- Towards a Ministry of Defence: victory over Japan to disaster at Suez, 1945-56 -- The Mountbatten era: Duncan Sandys to a unified Ministry of Defence 1957-64 -- Economic decline and defence retrenchment: Labour's defence reviews, 1965-79 -- Strategic balance lost and regained: John Nott's review and the Falklands conflict, May 1979-June 1982 -- Heseltine makes his mark: from victory in the Falklands to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, July 1982-October 1989. Subjects; Great Britain Armed Forces General staff officers. Great Britain Chiefs of Staff Committee. Great Britain Chiefs of Staff Committee History. Chiefs of staff. Great Britain. 1869-1990. Military. Falkland War. 1979-1982.
Price: €18.95