Too Important for the Generals - Losing and Winning the First World War

Allan Mallinson

ISBN 10: 0593058186 / ISBN 13: 9780593058183

Edité par Bantam Press, London, 2016

A propos de cet article

400 pages (xxiv, 376), appendices, index; publisher's black cloth with gilt titles on the spine; black pictorial dust-jacket. Fine, no writing, markup, labels or other defacements; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Too Important for the Generals - Losing and Winning the First World War
• Éditeur: Bantam Press, London
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0593058186
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780593058183
• Reliure: Hardcover/Hardback
• Édition: First Edition.
• Impression: First printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Military Affairs

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Synopsis

Published as the world marks the centenary of one of the most infamous battles of the First World War, the Somme, this powerfully-argued and polemical new history of the war by one of Britain's most respected military historians explores how the war was fought, how near we came to losing it - and why winning proved so costly and why the Allied generals and politicians failed to find a less bloody strategy for victory.

À propos de l?auteur

Allan Mallinson was a soldier for thirty-five years, serving first with the infantry and then the cavalry. He began writing while still serving. His first book was a history of four regiments of British light dragoons, one of whose descendant regiments he commanded. It was followed by A Close Run Thing, the first novel in the acclaimed and bestselling series chronicling the life of a fictitious cavalry officer, Matthew Hervey, before and after Waterloo. His The Making of the British Army was shortlisted for several prizes, while his centenary history, 1914: Fight the Good Fight – Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War won the British Army's Book of the Year Award. Its sequel, Too Important for the Generals, is a provocative look at leadership during the Great War. Allan Mallinson also writes for The Times, is history editor for Unherd.com and reviews for the TLS and the Spectator. He lives on Salisbury Plain.