British General Staff
Subtitle: Reform and Innovation
Contributors: Reid, Brian Holden
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780203018088
Subjects: Great Britain; History; Army; General Staff
Description: The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Brian Bond, Military Historian; 1 Planning for War in the Final Years of Pax Britannica, 1889-1903; 2 Towards a Ministry of Defence: First Faltering Steps, 1890-1923; 3 'Selection by Disparagement': Lord Esher, the General Staff and the Politics of Command,1904-14; 4 Lord Kitchener, the General Staff and the Army in India, 1902-14; 5 The British Army, its General Staff and the Continental Commitment 1904-14; 6 The General Staff and the Paradoxes of Continental War.