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The collection offers updates to existing scholarship while bringing new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.

The fiftteen chapters in this volume cover a broad range of perspectives on the First World War in the Middle East. All of the chapter authors look at their specific topics through a global lens.

The colonial contribution to Britain's First World War effort came from places like Rhodesia, Tonga, the Falkland Islands, Ceylon and Kuwait as much as it did the larger territories. It is the social and cultural reactions within these distant, often overlooked, societies now thrust into the mainstream of modern industrial conflict, which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Jamaica, and around the rest of the British imperial world, many complexities and interlocking themes are addressed.

The First World War and subsequent peace settlement shaped the course of the twentieth century, and the profound significance of these events were not lost on Harold Temperley, whose diaries are presented here. An established scholar, and later one of BritainΓÇÖs foremost modern and diplomatic historians, Temperley enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the war in August 1914. Invalided home from the Dardanelles campaign in 1915, he spent the remainder of the war and its aftermath as a general staff officer in military intelligence. Here he played a significant role in preparing British strategy for the eventual peace conference and in finalising several post-war boundaries in Eastern Europe. Later, in the 1920s and 1930s, Temperley was to co-edit the British diplomatic documents on the origins of the war; and the vicissitudes of modern Great Power politics were to be his principal preoccupation. Beginning in June 1916, the diary presents a more or less daily record of TemperleyΓÇÖs activities and observations throughout the war and subsequent peace negotiations. As a professional historian he appreciated the significance of eyewitness accounts, and if Temperley was not at the very heart of Allied decision-making during those years, he certainly had a ringside seat. Trained to observe accurately, he recorded the concerns and confusions of wartime, conscious always of the historical significance of what he observed. As a result there are few sources that match TemperleyΓÇÖs diary, which presents a fascinating and unique perspective upon the politics and diplomacy of the First World War and its aftermath.

The colonial contribution to Britain's First World War effort came from places like Rhodesia, Tonga, the Falkland Islands, Ceylon and Kuwait as much as it did the larger territories. It is the social and cultural reactions within these distant, often overlooked, societies now thrust into the mainstream of modern industrial conflict, which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Jamaica, and around the rest of the British imperial world, many complexities and interlocking themes are addressed.

Shows how, despite serious attempts to 'learn from history', both European-style wars and colonial wars produced ambiguous or disputed evidence as to the future of cavalry. This book offers a case-study of how in reality a practical military doctrine was developed and modified according to circumstances.

This volume provides the fully edited and annotated diaries of the scholar, soldier and diplomat Harold Temperley (1879-1939), covering his travels in the Balkans, his work for British military intelligence during the First World War, and his role in the Versailles peace conference. As a trained historian.

In this, the first scholarly biography of Donald Hankey - the 'Student in Arms' of the first world war - Ross Davies recovers his life, from his birth into a banking and slave-owning dynasty in 1884 to his death at the Somme in 1916.

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.

Army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the Great War. Alongside Blimpish generals they are generally characterized as embodiments of the callous futility and hypocrisy that left the battlefields of the Western Front littered with corpses. Yet, as historians have begun to reassess the motives and performance of generals.

This volume examines colonial encounters during the First World War. Through case studies from across the globe, the twelve chapters explore the spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.

This book offers the most detailed operational analysis of British tank use during the First World War ever undertaken. Its conclusions - based on a wealth of primary sources - provides a fascinating insight into how the British Army conducted operations on the Western Front, and how such an apparently conservative institution respond to technological innovation.

Historians and heritage professionals assess the First World War's centenary in parts of the former British empire. Did commemoration become celebration? Did the centenary serve social and political functions, create new knowledge, recover marginalised voices, confirm existing cliches? Can its lessons inform future commemorative events?

In the English-speaking world the First World War is all too often portrayed primarily as a conflict between Britain and Germany. The vast majority of books focus on the Anglo-German struggle, and ignore the dominant part played by the French, who for most of the war provided the bulk of the soldiers fighting against the central powers. As such.

Providing a systematic investigation into the evolving role of the artillery in the British Expeditionary Force, this study looks at how tactical and operational changes affected the overall Allied strategy. In line with the 'learning curve' thesis, it argues that despite many setbacks and missed opportunities.

By redirecting focus away from traditional areas of historical examination, such as battles on the Western Front and military strategy, this volume illustrates World War I's omnipresence throughout the world, in particular its effect on less studied peoples and regions.

Including a wide range of scholarship, this monograph focuses on the theme of communication during the First World War, analysing aspects such as the communication of war aims, objectives and war call-up, the experiences of war while also focusing on the knowledge produced around war.

Suitable for those who wish to understand the effects of the Great War in its fullest context, including the reactions, and attitudes of ordinary Europeans during the events of the years of demobilization, this book demonstrates that the experience of mass industrial war generated similar pressures within defeated and victorious countries.