Description
Product ID: | 9780553818666 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Too Important for the Generals |
Subtitle: | Losing and Winning the First World War |
Authors: | Author: Allan Mallinson |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, First World War, Military and defence strategy, War and defence operations, First World War, Military tactics, War & defence operations, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? The author argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties. ‘War is too important to be left to the generals’ snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. |
Imprint Name: | Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-06-01 |