It's an exceptional book. I read this last year. Excellent insights and one of the few books to go into much-needed detail of just what was happening between the wars. Shocked at the lack of 'lessons learnt' from 1918 to 19340. It has prompted me to delve more into the '100 days campaign' and brought my World War 1 knowledge out of the muck of the Somme and into greater clarity of the conflict as a whole. Highly, highly recommended 👍
Thank you JG -- very much appreciated your comment of the book. I too was surprised to learn of the lack of a critical review and lessons learned from Great War.
I can't wait to read this! Always fascinated how the B.E.F. was never given the proper credit for learning enough of combined arms warfare by 1918 to defeat the German Army. Most American's will claim A.E.F. involvement as turning the tide, but it was the British Army that won the war in 1918 in my opinion.
It's an exceptional book. I read this last year. Excellent insights and one of the few books to go into much-needed detail of just what was happening between the wars. Shocked at the lack of 'lessons learnt' from 1918 to 19340. It has prompted me to delve more into the '100 days campaign' and brought my World War 1 knowledge out of the muck of the Somme and into greater clarity of the conflict as a whole. Highly, highly recommended 👍
Thank you JG -- very much appreciated your comment of the book. I too was surprised to learn of the lack of a critical review and lessons learned from Great War.
I can't wait to read this! Always fascinated how the B.E.F. was never given the proper credit for learning enough of combined arms warfare by 1918 to defeat the German Army. Most American's will claim A.E.F. involvement as turning the tide, but it was the British Army that won the war in 1918 in my opinion.
Thanks Chris, so good to hear.... And after you've read the book, please let us know your impressions. vr/ Phil