Too Important For The Generals
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Too Important For The Generals
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Author : Allan Mallinson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-06-02
Too Important For The Generals written by Allan Mallinson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with History categories.
‘War is too important to be left to the generals’ snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be over by Christmas. Now, in his major new history, Allan Mallinson, former professional soldier and author of the acclaimed 1914: Fight the Good Fight, provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses and setbacks in the ‘war to end all wars’ – that, given the magnitude of their task, they did as well anyone could have. He takes issue with the popular view that the ‘amateur’ opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George and, especially, Winston Churchill, prolonged the war and increased the death toll. On the contrary, he argues, even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic, intelligent and humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals, while very few senior officers – including Sir Douglas Haig – were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale. And he repudiates the received notion that Churchill’s stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War ‘mistakes’ – notably the Dardanelles campaign – maintaining that in fact Churchill’s achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the ‘professionals’ in the First – and his determination that this would not be repeated. Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties. He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making and struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it. And he asserts that both the British and the French failed to appreciate what the Americans’ contribution to victory could be – and, after the war, to acknowledge fully what it had actually been.
Fight To The Finish
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Author : Allan Mallinson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Fight To The Finish written by Allan Mallinson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
‘Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.’ Lawrence James, THE TIMES We remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and because they have their own character. Looking at the First World War month by month reveals its complexity while preserving a sense of time. From the opening shots to the signing of the armistice, the First World War lasted almost 52 months. It was fought on land, sea and in the air. It became industrial, and unrestricted: poison gas, aerial bombing of cities, and the sinking without warning of merchantmen and passenger ships by submarines. Casualties, military and civilian, probably exceeded 40 million. Four empires collapsed during the course of the war – the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Ottoman. The First World War is almost impossible to comprehend. Day-by-day narratives can be dizzying for the reader wanting to make sense of the conflict as a whole. Freer-flowing accounts, while helping to understand the broader trends and factors, can give less of a sense of the human dimension of time. The month is a more digestible gauge. Based on the Allan Mallinson’s monthly commentaries in The Times throughout the centenary, Fight to the Finish is a new and original portrait of “The War to End War.”
The Argus Or General Observer A Political Miscellaney Containing The Most Important Events Of Europe And The Principal Occurrences In England From The Meeting Of Parliament October 29 1795 To Its Dissolution May 18 1796 With A Variety Of Original Letters And Reflections On The Interesting And Critical Situation Of The British Empire
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Author : Sampson Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1796
The Argus Or General Observer A Political Miscellaney Containing The Most Important Events Of Europe And The Principal Occurrences In England From The Meeting Of Parliament October 29 1795 To Its Dissolution May 18 1796 With A Variety Of Original Letters And Reflections On The Interesting And Critical Situation Of The British Empire written by Sampson Perry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1796 with categories.
The Life Of John Kalb Major General In The Revolutionary Army
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Author : Friedrich Kapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The Life Of John Kalb Major General In The Revolutionary Army written by Friedrich Kapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
The War Of The Rebellion
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Author : United States. War Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The War Of The Rebellion written by United States. War Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Confederate States of America categories.
Series I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863.
International Record Of Medicine And General Practice Clinics
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Author : Edward Swift Dunster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
International Record Of Medicine And General Practice Clinics written by Edward Swift Dunster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Medicine categories.
Brigadier General John Adams Csa
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Author : Leslie R. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Brigadier General John Adams Csa written by Leslie R. Tucker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with History categories.
John Adams is best remembered as one of the four Confederate generals who lay on the porch of the Carnton House, dead, when the Battle of Franklin ended on December 1, 1864. Unfortunately he did not leave much in the way of personal papers, and this biography has been pieced together from Army records and other sources, including accounts of his contemporaries. Adams's career in the U.S. Army gives us a good look at the military, the concept of Manifest Destiny, and the relations with those conquered by the Army, the Indians. This book also considers one of the more debated topics in Civil War history: why did a man who served the United States for most of his life resign his commission and side with the Confederacy?
Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Data Using Canoco 5
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Author : Petr Šmilauer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-17
Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Data Using Canoco 5 written by Petr Šmilauer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-17 with Nature categories.
An accessible introduction to the theory and practice of multivariate analysis for graduates, researchers and professionals dealing with ecological problems.
The Universalist Quarterly And General Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Universalist Quarterly And General Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Universalism categories.
The Historical Magazine And Notes And Queries Concerning The Antiquities History And Biography Of America
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Author : John Ward Dean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Historical Magazine And Notes And Queries Concerning The Antiquities History And Biography Of America written by John Ward Dean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with United States categories.