This book reveals the method by which the British army organized their land forces throughout the empire to make an army of standardized pieces that could be multiplied, expanded, and joined together in time of war; a military coalition that worked throughout the early twentieth century, even as the dominions and India became more autonomous.
This book reveals the method by which the British army organized their land forces throughout the empire to make an army of standardized pieces that could be multiplied, expanded, and joined together in time of war; a military coalition that worked throughout the early twentieth century, even as the dominions and India became more autonomous.
Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Soldiers' General: Bert Hoffmeister at War (2005), which won the 2007 C.P. Stacey Prize for Canadian Military History, and Corps Commanders: Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-1945 (2011). He is also co-editor of Capturing Hill 70: Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War (2016) and Turning Point 1917: The British Empire at War (2017). Professor Delaney is a retired lieutenant-colonel who served with the First and Third Battalions, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and the Canadian Airborne Regiment.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Frameworks: Elgin Esher Haldane and the Idea of an Imperial Army 1902-1909 * 2: The Imperial General Staff Military Education Army Apostles and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India 1904-1914 * 3: Growing Controlling and Fighting Imperial Armies 1914-1918 * 4: The Strands of Cooperation 1919-1933 * 5: Imperial Armies in the Period of Rearmament and Appeasement 1933-1939 * 6: The Last Great Imperial War Effort 1939-1945 * Conclusion * Appendices * Bibliography
* Introduction * 1: Frameworks: Elgin Esher Haldane and the Idea of an Imperial Army 1902-1909 * 2: The Imperial General Staff Military Education Army Apostles and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India 1904-1914 * 3: Growing Controlling and Fighting Imperial Armies 1914-1918 * 4: The Strands of Cooperation 1919-1933 * 5: Imperial Armies in the Period of Rearmament and Appeasement 1933-1939 * 6: The Last Great Imperial War Effort 1939-1945 * Conclusion * Appendices * Bibliography
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