Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Greenhalgh Elizabeth

Victory Through Coalition

Britain and France During the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Re-examines the course of the First World War through the lens of the Franco-British coalition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521096294
• ISBN-10: 0521096294
• Artikelnr.: 25468189

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Greenhalgh is Executive Officer at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, and the Joint Editor of War and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance
2. Command 1914-15
3. The Battle of the Somme, 1916
4. The liaison services, 1914-16
5. The allied response to the German submarine
6. Command 1917
7. The creation of the supreme war council
8. The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command
9. The allies counterattack
10. Politics and bureaucracy of supply
11. Coalition: a defective mechanism?