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Fire and Movement - The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 (Hardcover)
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Fire and Movement - The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 (Hardcover)
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The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long
before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a
mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and
skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing
themselves to stop the last great German offensive of 1914. A
remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the
campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering
excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much
selfless courage--all culminating in the climax of the First Battle
of Ypres.
And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look
at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914
campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth: a
tale of poor unprepared Britain, reliant on the peerless class of
her regular soldiers to bolster the rabble of the unreliable French
Army and defeat the teeming hordes of German troops. But the
reality of those early months is in fact far more complex--and
ultimately, Hart argues, far more powerful than the standard
triumphalist narrative.
Fire and Movement places the British role in 1914 into a proper
historical context, incorporating the personal experiences of the
men who were present on the front lines. The British regulars were
indeed skillful soldiers, but as Hart reveals, they also lacked
practice in many of the required disciplines of modern warfare, and
the inexperience of officers led to severe mistakes. Hart also
provides a more accurate portrait of the German Army they
faced--not the caricature of hordes of automatons, but the reality
of a well-trained and superlatively equipped force that outfought
the BEF in the early battles--and allows readers to come to a full
appreciation of the role of the French Army, without whom the Marne
never would have been won.
Ultimately Fire and Movement shows the story of the 1914 campaigns
to be an epic tale, and one which needs no embellishment. Through
the voices and recollections of the soldiers who were there, Hart
strips away the myth to offer a clear-eyed account of the
remarkable early days of the Great War.
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