TY - BOOK AU - TRAVERS Tim TI - The killing ground: the British Army, the western front and the emergence of modern warfare, 1900-1918 SN - 0415104483 (pbk.) PY - 1990/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - BRITISH ARMY KW - FIRST WORLD WAR KW - MILITARY HISTORY KW - TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE KW - WESTERN FRONT N2 - 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? ER -