The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916-1918

by David French

BL Uses previously unavailable archival evidence to challenge earlier theories

The popular image of the First World War is dominated by two misconceptions. The first holds that the war was an exercise in futility in which incompetent upper class generals callously sacrificed an entire generation of young men to no good purpose. The second holds that the debate about British strategic policy during the First World War was a gladiatorial contest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198205597
• ISBN13: 9780198205593
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"