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Chargement... Britain and a Widening War, 1915-1916: Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and the Sommepar Peter Liddle
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"In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize - and make accessible - the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War - 1915 and 1916 - and cover fundamental issues that are rarely explored outside the specialist journals. Their work is an important contribution to advancing understanding of Britain's role in the war, and it will be essential reading for anyone who is keen to keep up with the fresh research and original interpretation that is transforming our insight into the impact of the global conflict. The principal battles and campaigns are reconsidered from a new perspective, but so are more general topics such as military leadership, the discord between Britain's politicians and generals, conscription, conscientious objection and the part played by the Indian Army. The longer-term effects of the war are also considered - facial reconstruction, developments in communication, health, female support for men on active service, grief and bereavement, the challenge to religious belief, battlefield art, and the surviving vestiges of the war. Peter Liddle and his fellow contributors have compiled a volume that will come to be seen as a landmark in the field"--Dust jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I admit that I particularly enjoy a book of this style, where several historians have contributed individual chapters, covering a range of issues. The twenty-one chapters cover a review of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaign, firepower and equipment in use with the British Army, German Command and Control during the Somme fighting, Facial Surgery, the effect of war on faith, and teenagers in war. With my particular interests in mind, I was very pleased to read the chapter on the Indian Army and the Mesopotamia Campaign.
Another advantage for me with a book of this style, is the ability to pick it up, and read one chapter at a time. You can be really anarchic, and read Chapter 14, followed by Chapter 2, and then 19 if you want to, as each Chapter stands by itself. To read the whole book remains important to gain the full context of the nature of the First World War in this period. All the authors of chapters are distinguished academics in their field, and include Peter LIDDLE himself, Duncan REDFORD, Gary SHEFFIELD, and Robert JOHNSON.
There are eighty photographs included, each one supports the subject of a chapter. There are many I have not seen before, and the quality is good. On the rear of the book it states, ‘Explores key issues such as leadership and command, valour, conscientious objection, military medicine, the Home Front, the role of women, grief and bereavement, the archaeology of the war’, and having read the book twice, I agree fully. In short, a great book, and a thought provoking, yet enjoyable, read. ( )