Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914

by Nikolas Gardner

While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of the First World War remain poorly understood. Based on official unit war diaries, as well as personal papers and memoirs of numerous officers, this study sheds significant new light on the retreat from Mons in August 1914, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313324735
• ISBN13: 9780313324734
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.7"