This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War - the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War, both on the Western Front and in other theatres, Charles Messenger tells the story of how the British Army managed the challenges of command, training, technology and new weapons of war, the heavy casualties of trench warfare and the need to maintain morale - as the course of the war transformed the Army in all its aspects.
- ISBN10 030435368X
- ISBN13 9780304353682
- Publish Date 12 August 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Military
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English