Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Directing Operations : British Corps Command on the Western Front 1914-18 - Andy Simpson

Directing Operations

British Corps Command on the Western Front 1914-18

By: Andy Simpson

Paperback | 28 September 2018

At a Glance

Paperback


$58.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $14.69 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

Directing Operations has been described by Gary Sheffield as "undoubtedly one of the most significant books on the British Army during the First World War to appear in recent years".

Based on comprehensive research in primary sources, it is the first work to examine the role of British corps command in the BEF on the Western Front in World War One. It demonstrates the importance of pre-war thinking in the BEF's conduct of operations, tied in with extensive efforts to learn lessons from previous operations and to apply them as the war went on. It stresses the central role of the artillery in offensives on the Western Front, and how corps gained steadily more control over artillery assets during 1915. By 1917, learning from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, corps was the level of command at which most artillery was commanded and organised.

This set the stage for corps to become responsible for the detailed planning of the set-piece attacks of 1917 and 1918. They nevertheless demonstrated in the Hundred Days (from August 1918 to the end of the war) sufficient flexibility to delegate artillery control down to divisions when required and resume it for set-piece operations like the assault on the Hindenburg Line in September and October 1918.

The final chapter is perhaps the most original of the book, since in it the day to day activities of WW1 generals are analysed - what did these men do when not fighting battles, for example? This is the first time this aspect of command on the Western Front has ever been addressed.

More in Military History

Keeper of Lost Children - Sadeqa Johnson

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Advance Britannia : How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945 - Alan Allport
Roman Infantry Helmets : Elite - M.C. Bishop

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
The Causes of War : From 1700 to today - Geoffrey Blainey

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Rhineland : Hitler's Last Defence, 1944-45 - Anthony Tucker-Jones

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Stalin's Wine Cellar - John Baker

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Eleven Bats : A story of combat, cricket and the SAS - Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
In Flanders Fields : A WWI children's picture book - Norman Jorgensen
Huey : The Helicopter That Became an Australian Aviation Icon - Mark Lax
Borneo : The Last Campaign - Michael Veitch

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Code of Silence : How Australian Women Helped Win the War - Diana Thorp
The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
Start With Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E Frankl

RRP $16.99

$14.75

13%
OFF