A Review of: “Matthew S. Seligmann,Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War”

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
Geoff Berridge
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

scholarly journals DOCTRINE AND ORGANIZATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY, 1919–1932

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID FRENCH
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Common Understanding

It is widely assumed that after 1918 the British general staff ignored the experience it had gained from fighting a first-class European enemy and that it was not until the establishment of the Kirke committee in 1932 that it began to garner the lessons of the Great War and incorporate them into its doctrine. This article demonstrates that in fact British military doctrine underwent a continuous process of development in the 1920s. Far from turning its back on new military technologies, the general staff rejected the manpower-intensive doctrine that had sustained the army in 1914 in favour of one that placed modernity and machinery at the very core of its thinking. Between 1919 and 1931 the general staff did assimilate the lessons of the First World War into the army's written doctrine. But what it failed to do was to impose a common understanding of the meaning of that doctrine throughout the army.

1871-1918

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-211
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Army ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Zusammenfassung Peter Walkenhorst, Nation – Volk – Rasse. Radikaler Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914 (Bruno Thoß ) André Tiebel, Die Entstehung der Schutztruppengesetze für die deutschen Schutzgebiete Deutsch-Ostafrika, Deutsch-Südwestafrika und Kamerun (1884-1898) (Christian Senne) Eberhardt Kettlitz, Afrikanische Soldaten aus deutscher Sicht seit 1871 (Ulrich van der Heyden) Thomas Morlang, Askari und Fitafita. »Farbige« Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien (Winfried Speitkamp) Matthew S. Seligmann, Spies in Uniform. British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War (Stephen Schröder) Naval Intelligence from Germany. The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914. Ed. by Matthew S. Seligmann (Nicolas Wolz) Michael B. Barrett, Operation Albion. The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (Gerhard P. Groß) Jeff Lipkes, Rehearsals. The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 (Martin Moll) Alexander Watson, Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 (Christian Stachelbeck) Christine Brocks, Die bunte Welt des Krieges. Bildpostkarten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918 (Christoph Nübel) Anton Holzer, Das Lächeln der Henker. Der unbekannte Krieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung 1914-1918 (Markus Pöhlmann) David C. Homsher, American Battlefields of World War I, Château-Thierry – Then and Now. A Guidebook, Anthology and Photographic Essay (Heiner Bröckermann) Der Erste Weltkrieg in der populären Erinnerungskultur. Hrsg. von Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek und Wolfgang Hochbruck (Hiram Kümper)

scholarly journals The british military hospitals in macedonia during the first world war

PRILOZI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Vladimir Cvetkovski
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Military Hospitals ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Operating Theatres ◽  
First World

AbstractThe paper focusses its attention to the medical work of the British Military hospitals stationed in Macedonia during the First World War, the surgical work carried out under very heavy conditions in improvised operating theatres as well as the treatment of the wounded and sick solders brought from the battlefields on the Macedonian Front.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The chapter introduces readers to the geographic and chronological extent of British military expansion in the eastern Mediterranean that is assessed in the book. It further explores changing definitions of the Levant and Levantine and explains why they are an appropriate appellation for this imperial project. It critiques predominant explanations of British military expansion and contraction in the region and sets forth an alternative model for how the geographical imagination of soldiers and statesmen informed policy making. It then outlines the sources that research for the book is centred on—namely the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British servicemen, alongside official state documents—and explores how these been read and utilized in literature on the First World War. Finally, it provides an overview of the structure of the book.

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