Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914

by Nikolas Gardner

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While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of the First World War remain poorly understood. Based on official unit war diaries, as well as personal papers and memoirs of numerous officers, this study sheds significant new light on the retreat from Mons in August 1914, the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0313324735

ISBN13:9780313324734

Release Date:August 2003

Publisher:Praeger

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.7"

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