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Title

1917 : tactics, training and technology : the 2007 Chief of Army Military History Conference / edited by Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey.

Author

Chief of Army's Military History Conference (2007 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Publication

[Loftus, N.S.W.?] : Australian Military History Publications, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Dennis, Peter, 1945-
• Grey, Jeffrey.
• Australia. Department of Defence. Army History Unit

Description

viii, 202 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

A common partial view of reality and recent historical scholarship over the past 20 years or so has refuted many of the more extreme and simplistic assumptions about the conduct of war, especially on the British side on the Wester Front. This volume reflects much of that recent scholarship, especially in analyzing the proposition that the British Army became a "learning instutition" in the course of the war. It also reflects modern scholarly concerns through the consideration of non-British cases, most obviously the German common enemy. But there are papers as well on the developments and experience within the French Army, while the singular case of the American Expeditionary Force under Pershing casts a useful contrast to the other national armies examined

Alternative Title

• Nineteen seventeen
• Tactics, training and technology
• 2007 Chief of Army's Military History Conference
• Nineteen seventeen : tactics, training and technology

Subject

• Great Britain. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps > History > Congresses
• United States. American Expeditionary Forces > History > Congresses
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Haig and the British Expeditionary Force in 1917 / Gary Sheffield -- 1st Australian Division in 1917: a snapshot / Robert Stephenson -- Storm troops: combat effectiveness and the Canadian Corps in 1917 / Tim Cook -- Masterpiece of massacre: the New Zealand Division and two battles of 1917 / Glyn Harper -- From Vryheid to Flanders: the mixed fortunes of the South African Brigade / Bill Nasson -- How did France weather the troubles of 1917? / Robert A. Doughty -- "What true misery is": France's crisis of morale, 1917 / Michael Neiberg -- British High Command at Passchendaele / Robin Prior -- Preferring to learn from experience: the American Expeditionary Force in 1917 / Andrew Wiest -- Other side of the wire: the German Army in 1917 / Robert T. Foley -- Third Ypres: fact and fiction / Dan Todman.

ISBN

• 9780980379679 (pbk.)
• 0980379679 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 911263662
• SCSB-11615664

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Harvard Library