Download or read book Big Wars and Small Wars written by Hew Strachan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating new insight into the British army and its evolution through both large and small scale conflicts. To prepare for future wars, armies derive lessons from past wars. However, some armies are defeated because they learnt the wrong lessons, fighting new conflicts in ways appropriate to the last. For the British Army in the twentieth century, the challenge has been particularly great. It has never had the luxury of emerging from one major European war with the time to prepare itself for the next. The leading military historians show how ongoing commitments to a range of ‘small wars’ have always been part of the Army’s experience. After 1902 and after 1918 they included colonial campaigns, but they also developed into what we would now call counter-insurgency operations, and these became the norm between 1945 and 1969. During the height of the Cold War, in 1982, the Army was deployed to the Falklands. Since 1990 the dominant tasks of the Army have been peace support operations. This is an excellent resource for all students and scholars of military history, politics and international relations and British history.
Download or read book Britain s Army in the Twentieth Century written by Field Marshal Lord Carver and published by Pan Books Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the British Army in our century, as told by one of Britain's most distinguished living soldiers, Field Marshal Lord Carver. His research is backed by first-person 'action accounts', provided by the Imperial War Museum.
Download or read book The British Army in the 20th Century written by Ian V. Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Culture and the Media written by Ian Stewart and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is the role of the British media in our perception of warfare? Are the impressions which we glean from war films, television news reports and newspaper stories reliable? What are the issues - practical and political - involved in bringing reports of armed conflict to our television screens? Are British military institutions fairly represented, and how are enemy forces portrayed? How are ideas of nationalism and patriotism incorporated into the presentation of war?" "These are some of the questions addressed in this new collection of essays. The book is intended to provide students and general readers with a concise introduction to the main arguments and issues surrounding war and the moving image media in 20th century Britain, as well as contributing new perspectives to this increasingly important area of debate." "Among the subjects discussed are: the media build-up to the Gulf War; representations of the First World War; reporting terrorism; British imperialism in film; transmission technologies and the news reporting of armed conflict; the meaning of war-toys and war-games; and postmodernism and military history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The British Army Manpower and Society into the Twenty first Century written by Hew Strachan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused by changes in society, the Army's "right to be different", race, homosexuality and gender.
Download or read book The Changing of the Guard written by Simon Akam and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the British military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers. Composed of assiduous documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies who accompanied them, and the family members who loved and -- on occasion -- lost them, it is a strikingly rich, nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national institutions in a time of great stress. Award-winning journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the army when he was 18, returned a decade later to see how the institution had changed. His book examines the relevance of the armed forces today -- their social, economic, political, and cultural role. This is as much a book about Britain, and about the politics of failure, as it is about the military.
Download or read book The British Army written by Imperial War Museum and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses memorabilia and personal documents from the archives of the Imperial War Museum along with personal accounts to provide an illustrated history of the British Army from the turn of the century to the invasion of Iraq and Operation Telic.
Download or read book The First British Army 1624 1628 written by Laurence Spring and published by Helion. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the concept of 'Britain' dates back to the Roman period, it was James I that founded Britain in the modern sense. With his accession to the throne in 1603, for the first time Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland were united under one monarch - with James bestowing on himself the title of 'King of Great Britain'. Before James' accession, Scotsmen and Irishmen may have served in the English Army as mercenaries, but it was known as an English Army - but after 1693 a British flag flew over the castles and forts throughout the Countries. The army raised by Charles I in 1625 for the war against Spain, and subsequently with France, is most famous for its failure. However, it is one of the best-documented armies of the early seventeenth century. Using archival and archaeological evidence, the first half of the book covers the lives of the officers and men serving in this army - as well as the women who accompanied them. The author discusses the origins of officers and why they decided to serve in the army - and how the men from England, Scotland and Ireland were recruited, as well as how they were clothed and what they ate, their medical care, and the tactics used by the army. It also covers the hidden asset of the tailors, armorers and merchants who helped to put the army into the field. The second half of the book covers not only the expeditions to Cadiz, the Île de Rhé and to the siege of La Rochelle, but also their effect on an England who feared a Spanish, and later a French, invasion. Also covered are the campaigns of Count Ernest von Mansfeldt's and Sir Charles Morgan's armies, which fought at Breda, Dessau Bridge and against the forces of the Holy Roman Empire. The final chapter looks at what became of the soldiers and their widows once the army had been disbanded. Overall, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in this period of Early Modern History, including the English Civil War and the Thirty Years' War. The publication of this new fully revised edition has enabled the author to add some eight years of new research on the subject and the inclusion of specially commissioned artwork depicting drill postures from the period.
Download or read book The Killing Ground written by Timothy Travers and published by Unwin Hyman. This book was released on 1990 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study integrates social and military history to tell the story of how the British Army, particularly its senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare of the early 20th century.
Download or read book The History of the British Army written by J. W. Fortescue and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the British Army is an exhaustive military study which gives a comprehensive coverage of the English military situation from the beginning until the late 18th century and the formation of the New Model Army. Starting from the 11th century and the Battle of Hastings the author comprises six centuries of British history endeavoring to point out occurrences and incident that were essential to a coherent sketch of the growth of the British military system. One of the goals of the work was to correct the injustice of numerous political histories which have the Army, Navy, and the whole question of National Defense left out of account.
Download or read book The Hall of Mirrors written by Jim Storr and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military scholar and author of The Human Face of War analyses the nature of 20th-century war and warfare in this wide-ranging study. The 20th Century was possibly the most violent and turbulent century in history. The wars waged in those ten decades reshaped the globe and wreaked an incalculable toll on human life. In The Hall of Mirrors, military analyst and historian Jim Storr explores what can we learn from war, and warfare, in the 20th century. Rather than presenting a narrative history, The Hall of Mirrors takes a deep look at the nature of 20th Century war and warfare. Storr looks at the strategy, operational art, and tactics employed. He analyzes how technology developed, and how those technologies affected military events. He also considers the effect of individual human beings and organizations. By 1919 the First World War was already over. Millions had died, empires had crumbled, new nations had been born. And yet the so-called Great War was merely setting the stage for another eighty years of crisis, conflict, and change; of alliances forged and broken; of apparent chaos that can appear futile, and yet has enormous consequence.
Download or read book The British Soldier of the Second World War written by Neil R. Storey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of men fought for Britain in the Second World War. Covering recruitment, training, kit and life on the front line, this is the ideal introduction for anyone wanting an insight into the life of the British Tommy.
Download or read book Major impacts of World War I on the British society written by Oliver Christl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2005 in the subject History of Germany - World War I, Weimar Republic, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham, language: English, abstract: Although it ended over a lifetime ago, the First World War is still present in the memory of today’s British society. It was the massive, and in the British national experience, unprecedented number of casualties that made it “The Great War” in the perception of the British public. To face the challenge of total war both political practice and economy had to be transformed radically and, in a dramatically short period of time, hundreds of thousands of men had to be raised for the military forces. The whole society endured a heavy burden and was profoundly changed during the wartime. This essay investigates the major impacts of the First World War on the British society. Therefore, after describing the upcoming nationalism and a promoting class consciousness, both caused by the war, the examination focuses on the impact of the war on everyday life. Finally, the impact of the war on the British political culture is described. II. Heightened Nationalism and Class Consciousness Although the conflicts with some of her European colonial rivals in the late 19th century and the early 20th century led to an increasing effort in improving the logistic and training of Britain’s military, resulting, for example, in the creation of the Committee of Imperial Defence (1902), the General Staff (1904) and the Officers’ Training Corps , the military force Britain could raise at the beginning of World War I was, compared to the major continental powers France and Germany, relatively small. At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the British army had a regimental strength of less than a quarter of a million men. With regard to the high number of casualties the first severe battles in France claimed, the British government soon called for a much larger army. The Minister of War, Lord Kitchener, demanded a whole New Army and in response to his famous exhortation “Your country needs YOU” over a million men had volunteered by Christmas 1914. By the end of the war in 1918, 5.2 million men had served in the army, over half of them as volunteers. Most of this mass army consisted of soldiers coming from the working class. The reasons for the thousands of workingmen joining the military forces were manifold: many saw in their service a chance to get away from the dull and hard working-life or to escape unemployment; some expected to see other countries and to come home as heroes. But one of the most influential reasons seems to have been the workers’ fundamental loy
Download or read book With the British Army in the Holy Land written by Henry Lock and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Osmond Lock's account is a an early 20th century perspective on British colonial activities in the Middle East in the 19th century and the fighting in the region during World War I, particularly near Egypt, the Suez, and parts of Jerusalem and modern day Israel.
Download or read book The Vickers Machine Gun written by Mike Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Army written by John W. Fortescue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the British Army spans over three and a half centuries since its founding in 1660 and involves numerous European wars, colonial wars and world wars. From the late 17th century until the mid-20th century, the United Kingdom was the greatest economic and imperial power in the world, and although this dominance was principally achieved through the strength of the Royal Navy (RN), the British Army played a significant role.
Download or read book The Sword of the Crown written by Eric W. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From knight and roundhead to the birth of the modern army The British Army can trace its lineage back to the middle ages, but for those who are interested in the development of Britain's land forces together with the campaigns that made it into a modern army on the eve of the Great War, there can be few better, more concise and authoritative works than this written by Eric Sheppard. The foundations of the British Army are described to the English Civil War, but Sheppard concentrates on the periods of warfare beginning with the exploits of John Churchill-Duke of Marlborough. Clive, Wellington, Roberts, Kitchener and others all take the stage as each campaign is succinctly described together with those political influences that progressed the Army to its next stage of evolution. Wars are considered within the framework of their geographical sphere so readers are able to grasp the evolution of Europe, India and America as they were known by the beginning of the 20th century. This valuable reference source is accompanied by numerous maps and illustrations as well as well executed vignettes as to the nature of the British Army on the field of battle in various eras. This is not only a book to come back to time after time, but also an invaluable cornerstone in any military history library.
