TRAVERS Tim

The killing ground: the British Army, the western front and the emergence of modern warfare, 1900-1918/ Tim Travers - London: Routledge, 1990 - xxiv, 309 pages; maps; 23 cm.

This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable?

0415104483 (pbk.)


BRITISH ARMY
FIRST WORLD WAR
MILITARY HISTORY
TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE
WESTERN FRONT