'Allies Are a Tiresome Lot': The British Army in Italy in the First World War

by John Dillon

Book Overview

The year 2014 saw the start of four years of centenaries associated with the First World War. In the decades since that conflict ended there have been many books, plays, films and television programs which have variously characterized the war as 'senseless' and 'futile'. In more recent years revisionist historians have attempted to 'correct' this portrayal; it was a war that Britain had to be join to thwart German hegemonic ambitions, and British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910777323
• ISBN13: 9781910777329
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 216 Pages