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Victory to Defeat
The British Army 1918-40
Buch von Richard Dannatt (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.

The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on who Britain might have to fight, and how. Victory to Defeat clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn't prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn't prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army's leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940.

Victory to Defeat is a captivating history of the mismanagement of a war-winning army. It is also a stark warning that we neglect to understand who our enemy might be, and how to defeat him, at the peril of our country. The British Army is now to be cut to its smallest size since 1714. Are we, this book asks, repeating the same mistakes again?
A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.

The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on who Britain might have to fight, and how. Victory to Defeat clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn't prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn't prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army's leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940.

Victory to Defeat is a captivating history of the mismanagement of a war-winning army. It is also a stark warning that we neglect to understand who our enemy might be, and how to defeat him, at the peril of our country. The British Army is now to be cut to its smallest size since 1714. Are we, this book asks, repeating the same mistakes again?
Über den Autor
General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL is one of the UK's most respected military commentators, frequently appearing on television and radio and in newsprint, most recently on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its implications for the West. As Chief of the General Staff his leadership and example were critical in shaping the debate about the role of the professional army in modern warfare. His autobiography, Leading From The Front (Bantam Press), was published in 2010, and he entered the House of Lords as a Crossbencher the following year

Robert Lyman is one of Britain's top military historians. He spent 20 years in the British Army and he is currently a Research Fellow at the Changing Face of War Centre, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His most recent book, A War of Empires (Bloomsbury/Osprey, 2021), was published to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the RUSI Medal for Military History 2022.
Zusammenfassung
The history of both the final years of World War I and the early years of World War II are perennially popular. This book joins the two in a sweeping narrative that explains the how and why both victory and defeat were guaranteed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations and mapsAcknowledgements Introduction: La Forêt de Compiègne Prologue: Calais, 1940 PART ONE: THE GREAT WAR
Chapter 1: The Kaiserschlacht and its consequences
Chapter 2: Confronting the enormity of the Great War on the front line
Chapter 3: Finding a way through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond
Chapter 4: Masters of the battlefield, 1918

PART TWO: POST WAR AND INTER WAR
Chapter 5: Peace, and derangement
Chapter 6: Old and new post-bellum responsibilities - and the Irish Question
Chapter 7: Imperial policeman versus continental commitment
Chapter 8: The modern major general: more categorical or allegorical?
Chapter 9: What is the army for, and how should it fight?
Chapter 10: The battle of the tank
Chapter 11: Britain faces a rapidly changing world

PART THREE: NEW THREATS AND NEW REALITIES
Chapter 12: Boiling the frog: the rise of the Nazi threat
Chapter 13: The slow rush to rearm
Chapter 14: Feeding the crocodile

PART FOUR: THE END OF THE BEGINNING
Chapter 15: The empire declares war
Chapter 16: The chickens come home to roost
Chapter 17: Sichelschnitt: the anatomy of disaster

Epilogue: El Alamein and beyond Appendix: Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff 1915-46 Notes Suggestions for further reading Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781472860866
ISBN-10: 1472860861
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Dannatt, Richard
Lyman, Robert
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 238 x 158 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Dannatt (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,694 kg
preigu-id: 126328252
Über den Autor
General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL is one of the UK's most respected military commentators, frequently appearing on television and radio and in newsprint, most recently on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its implications for the West. As Chief of the General Staff his leadership and example were critical in shaping the debate about the role of the professional army in modern warfare. His autobiography, Leading From The Front (Bantam Press), was published in 2010, and he entered the House of Lords as a Crossbencher the following year

Robert Lyman is one of Britain's top military historians. He spent 20 years in the British Army and he is currently a Research Fellow at the Changing Face of War Centre, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His most recent book, A War of Empires (Bloomsbury/Osprey, 2021), was published to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the RUSI Medal for Military History 2022.
Zusammenfassung
The history of both the final years of World War I and the early years of World War II are perennially popular. This book joins the two in a sweeping narrative that explains the how and why both victory and defeat were guaranteed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations and mapsAcknowledgements Introduction: La Forêt de Compiègne Prologue: Calais, 1940 PART ONE: THE GREAT WAR
Chapter 1: The Kaiserschlacht and its consequences
Chapter 2: Confronting the enormity of the Great War on the front line
Chapter 3: Finding a way through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond
Chapter 4: Masters of the battlefield, 1918

PART TWO: POST WAR AND INTER WAR
Chapter 5: Peace, and derangement
Chapter 6: Old and new post-bellum responsibilities - and the Irish Question
Chapter 7: Imperial policeman versus continental commitment
Chapter 8: The modern major general: more categorical or allegorical?
Chapter 9: What is the army for, and how should it fight?
Chapter 10: The battle of the tank
Chapter 11: Britain faces a rapidly changing world

PART THREE: NEW THREATS AND NEW REALITIES
Chapter 12: Boiling the frog: the rise of the Nazi threat
Chapter 13: The slow rush to rearm
Chapter 14: Feeding the crocodile

PART FOUR: THE END OF THE BEGINNING
Chapter 15: The empire declares war
Chapter 16: The chickens come home to roost
Chapter 17: Sichelschnitt: the anatomy of disaster

Epilogue: El Alamein and beyond Appendix: Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff 1915-46 Notes Suggestions for further reading Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781472860866
ISBN-10: 1472860861
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Dannatt, Richard
Lyman, Robert
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 238 x 158 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Dannatt (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,694 kg
preigu-id: 126328252
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