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British Generalship during the Great War - The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne (1861-1929) (Paperback)
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British Generalship during the Great War - The Military Career of Sir Henry Horne (1861-1929) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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Following the career of one relatively unknown First World War
general, Lord Horne, this book adds to the growing literature that
challenges long-held assumptions that the First World War was a
senseless bloodbath conducted by unimaginative and incompetent
generals. Instead it demonstrates that men like Horne developed new
tactics and techniques to deal with the novel problems of trench
warfare and in so doing seeks to re-establish the image of the
British generals and explain the reasons for the failures of
1915-16 and the successes of 1917-18 and how this remarkable change
in performance was achieved by a much maligned group of senior
officers. Horne's important career and remarkable character sheds
light not only on the major battles in which he was involved; the
progress of the war; his relationships with his staff and other
senior officers; the novel problems of trench warfare; the
assimilation of new weapons, tactics and training methods; and the
difficulties posed by the German defences, but also on the
attitudes and professionalism of a senior British commander serving
on the Western Front. Horne's career thus provides a vehicle for
studying the performance of the British Army in the first quarter
of the Twentieth Century. It also gives an important insight into
the attitudes, ethos and professionalism of the officer corps which
led that army to victory on the Western Front, exposing not only
its flaws but also its many strengths. This study consequently
provides a judgment not only on Horne as a personality, innovator
and general of great importance but also on his contemporaries who
served with the British Armies in South Africa and France during an
era which saw a revolution in military affairs giving birth to a
Modern Style of Warfare which still prevails to this day.
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