Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Greenhalgh is Executive Officer at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, and the Joint Editor of War and Society.
Re-examines the course of the First World War through the lens of the Franco-British coalition.
Introduction; 1. Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance; 2. Command 1914¿15; 3. The Battle of the Somme, 1916; 4. The liaison services, 1914¿16; 5. The allied response to the German submarine; 6. Command 1917; 7. The creation of the supreme war council; 8. The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command; 9. The allies counterattack; 10. Politics and bureaucracy of supply; 11. Coalition: a defective mechanism?