Forgotten victory : the First World War : myths and realities / Gary Sheffield.
Publication details: London : Headline, 2001.Description: xix, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0747271577 : (hbk.)
- 940.3 23
- D521 .S453 2001
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Foreword by Professor Richard Holmes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
1. Oh What a futile war? The First World War in British and American memory -- 2. A war fought about nothing? The origins of the First World War -- 3. Total war -- 4. The Western Front: right or wrong? British strategy in the First World War -- 5. The emergence of trench warfare, 1914-15 -- 6. The man and his army: Douglas Haig and the British Expeditionary Force -- 7. The year of the Somme -- 8. 1917: The triumph opf the set-piece -- 9. 1918: Victory on the Western Front -- 10. The aftermath and the consequences -- Notes -- Appendix.
The First World War is arguably the most misunderstood event in twentieth-century history. In a radical new interpretation, leading military historian Gary Sheffield argues that while the war was tragic, it was not futile; and, although condemned as 'lions led by donkeys', in reality the British citizen army became the most effective fighting force in the world, which in 1918 won the greatest series of battles in British history. A challenging and controversial book, FORGOTTEN VICTORY is based on twenty years of research and draws on the work of major scholars. Without underestimating the scale of the human tragedy or playing down the disasters, it explodes many myths about the First World War, placing it in its true historical context.
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