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Fire and movement : the British Expeditionary Force and the campaign of 1914

Hart, Peter, 1955- author

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\"The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop the last great German offensive of 1914. A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment culminates in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth: a tale of unprepared Britain, reliant on the peerless class of her regular soldiers to bolster the rabble of the unreliable French Army and defeat the teeming hordes of German troops. But the reality of those early months is in fact far more complex--and ultimately, Hart argues, far more powerful than the standard triumphalist narrative\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Great Britain. Army History World War, 1914-1918. / Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force. / Germany. Heer History World War, 1914-1918. / France. Armâee History World War, 1914-1918. / World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front. / World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns France. / World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, British.
• ISBN: 9780199989270, 0199989273

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D546.H44 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE