The First World War and British military history
1991, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. A suggestion only of foxing to inside dust-wrapper panels and endpapers. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #479149
ISBN: 0198222998
Physical description; xiv, 330 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Early Historical Responses to the Great War: Fortescue, Conan Doyle, and Buchan / Keith Grieves -- "The Real War": Liddell Hart, Cruttwell, and Falls / Hew Strachan -- Sir James Edmonds and the Official History / David French -- Frocks and Brasshats / Ian Beckett -- Sir John French and Lord Kitchener / Richard Holmes -- The Reputation of Sir Douglas Haig / Keith Simpson -- Gallipoli / Edward Spiers -- Allenby and the Palestine Campaign / Jonathan Newell -- T. E. Lawrence and His Biographers / Brian Holden Reid -- "Bunking" and Debunking: The Controversies of the 1960s / Alex Danchev -- Everyman at War / Peter Simkins. Subjects; World War, 1914-1918 Historiography. Historiography Great Britain History 20th century. Great Britain History, Military 20th century.
Price: €225.00