The British General Staff : reform and innovation c. 1890-1939
2002, First Edition. London : F. Cass. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #480122
Series; Cass series--military history and policy ; no. 10. Physical description; 245 pages ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction: Brian Bond, Military Historian; 1 Planning for War in the Final Years of Pax Britannica, 1889-1903; 2 Towards a Ministry of Defence: First Faltering Steps, 1890-1923; 3 'Selection by Disparagement': Lord Esher, the General Staff and the Politics of Command,1904-14; 4 Lord Kitchener, the General Staff and the Army in India, 1902-14; 5 The British Army, its General Staff and the Continental Commitment 1904-14; 6 The General Staff and the Paradoxes of Continental War; 7 The Australians at Pozieres: Command and Control on the Somme, 1916; 8 The British General Staff and Japan, 1918-41; 9 J.F.C.Fuller: Staff Officer Extraordinary; 10 'An Extensive Use of Weedkiller': Patterns of Promotion in the Senior Ranks of the British Army, 1919-39; 11 The British General Staff and the Coming of War, 1933-39; 12 'A Particularly Anglo-Saxon Institution': The British General Staff in the Era of Two World Wars. Subjects; Great Britain. Army. General Staff. History.
Price: €125.00