Brian Bond

Britain's Two World Wars against Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

This title challenges popular views of the First World War as catastrophic and futile and the Second World War as a well-conducted and victorious moral crusade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781107004719
• ISBN-10: 1107004713
• Artikelnr.: 41612234

Autorenporträt

Brian Bond is Emeritus Professor of Military History at King's College London, where he has played a leading role in the development of military history in the Department of War Studies from 1966 to 2001. He was president of the British Commission for Military History from 1986 to 2006. He has published numerous books including The Unquiet Western Front (2002) and Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The creation of myths after 1945
2. British policy and strategy in the two world wars
3. British generalship in the two world wars
4. At the sharp end: combat experience in the two world wars
5. Attrition in the First World War: the naval blockade
6. Attrition in the Second World War: strategic bombing
7. The transformation of war on the Western Front, 1914-18
8. The British army: learning process in the Second World War
9. After the wars: gains and losses
Select bibliography.