The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 / Edition 1

The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 / Edition 1

by Stephen Badsey
ISBN-10:
0826437184
ISBN-13:
9780826437181
Pub. Date:
08/30/2009
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0826437184
ISBN-13:
9780826437181
Pub. Date:
08/30/2009
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 / Edition 1

The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 / Edition 1

by Stephen Badsey

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Overview

In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people.
Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid to modern television comedy. As a contribution to progressive military history, The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-1918 proves that the way the British Army fought and its portrayal through the media cannot be separated. It is one of a growing number of studies which show that, far from being in opposition to each other, cultural history and the history of battle must be combined for the First World War to be properly understood.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826437181
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/30/2009
Series: Birmingham War Studies
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr Stephen Badsey MA (Cantab.) FRHistS is Reader in Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. For many years he has been internationally recognised as one of the foremost historians of the First World War, particularly through his appearances on television and knowledge of the media in war.

Table of Contents

1. The Future of the Western Front in Public History
2. The British Official Film
3. The Trench Raid at Cherisy
4. British Cavalry
5. The Press Propaganda and Passchendaele
6. Douglas Haig and the Press
7. The Two Western Fronts Debate
8. Could the Battle of the Somme Have Been Won?
9. British Politics, Strategy and Propaganda
10. British High Command and the Battle of the Somme

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