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British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War (Paperback)
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British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have
fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy
and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper
echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly
understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication
between the General Staff and the front line, this book examines
the British army's commanders at battalion level, via four key
questions: (i) How and where resources were found from the small
officer corps of 1914 to cope with the requirement for commanding
officers (COs) in the expanding army; (ii) What was the quality of
the men who rose to command; (iii) Beyond simple overall quality,
exactly what qualities were perceived as making an effective CO;
and (iv) To what extent a meritocracy developed in the British army
by the Armistice. Based upon a prosopographical analysis of a
database over 4,000 officers who commanded infantry battalions
during the war, the book tackles one of the central
historiographical issues pertaining to the war: the qualities of
the senior British officer. In so doing it challenges lingering
popular conceptions of callous incompetence, as well more scholarly
criticism that has derided the senior British officer, but has done
so without a data-driven perspective. Through his thorough
statistical analysis Dr Peter Hodgkinson adds a valuable new
perspective to the historical debate underway regarding the nature
of British officers during the extraordinary expansion of the Army
between 1914 and 1918, and the remarkable, yet often forgotten,
British victories of The Hundred Days.
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