The British Army and the First World War
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 7869
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9780521183741
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is a co-authored volume comprising 14 full-length chapters (including introduction and conclusion) based on in-depth original research (emerging from a number of previous research projects) totalling 420 pages and 180K words. The book is a truly collaborative work. Each contributor took the lead on research and writing the chapters on which they had most expertise and in-depth knowledge of the primary sources. In a first draft, I. Beckett wrote chapters 1, 3, 5 and the conclusion (about 130 pages, 30% of the text); M. Connelly wrote the introduction and chapters 6 to 10 (over 190 pages, over 45% of the text); and T. Bowman wrote chapters 2, 4 and 11 (about 100 pages, about 25% of the volume). After initial drafting, all chapters were circulated among the authors for comment before the responsible author created the final draft. Together the chapters provide a comprehensive history of the British army during the conflict through the exploration of the internal social and cultural complexion of the force, the political-military interface influencing strategy and operations, and an examination of battlefield performance. As well as drawing on their knowledge of primary sources, the authors were looking to make a significant historiographical statement. Each chapter is, therefore, a reflection on an extensive range of scholarship on the British Army during the First World War. The authors reached clear conclusions on the historiographical discussions indicating what they believed to be the most persuasive of the approaches and interpretations.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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