Fire and Movement by Peter Hart (.PDF)
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Fire and Movement- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914 by Peter Hart
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Overview: The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop the last great German offensive of 1914.
A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage–all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres.
And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war’s first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth: a tale of poor unprepared Britain, reliant on the peerless class of her regular soldiers to bolster the rabble of the unreliable French Army and defeat the teeming hordes of German troops. But the reality of those early months is in fact far more complex–and ultimately, Hart argues, far more powerful than the standard triumphalist narrative.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Military > World War I
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