Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918

Jonathan Boff

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139162555

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(i) Official documents

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PH 6 V/41: Generalkommando LI War Diary
PH 6 V/68: Generalkommando LIV War Diary
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PH 8 I/534: 113. Infanterie Division War Diary
PH 8 I/536: 83. Infanterie-Division War Diary
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ADM 137/3082–3: 63rd Division General Staff War Diary
AIR 1/166/15/142/19: History of No. 3 Squadron RAF
AIR 1/166/15/152/1: History of No. 12 Squadron RAF
AIR 1/166/15/153/1: History of No. 15 Squadron RAF
AIR 1/176/15/158/1: History of No. 73 Squadron RAF
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AIR 1/1499/204/39/12: No. 57 Squadron RAF Bomb Dropping Reports
AIR 1/1500/204/39/15: No. 57 Squadron RAF Miscellaneous Reports
AIR 1/1511/204/58/17: III Brigade RAF Correspondence re Tanks
AIR 1/1512/204/58/28: III Brigade RAF Operation Orders
AIR 1/1513/204/58/35: Histories of No. 3 Squadron, No. 73 Squadron RAF
AIR 1/1515/204/58/49: III Brigade RAF Bomb Dropping Reports
AIR 1/1517/204/58/64: III Brigade RAF Summaries of Work
AIR 1/1518/204/58/65: III Brigade RAF Weekly Summaries of Work
AIR 1/1518/204/58/75: III Brigade RAF Operation Orders
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WO 95/21–3: GHQ General Staff War Diary
WO 95/26: GHQ AG War Diary
WO 95/94–5: Tank Corps General Staff War Diary
WO 95/99: 1st Tank Brigade HQ War Diary
WO 95/102: 2nd Tank Brigade HQ War Diary
WO 95/103: 10th Tank Battalion War Diary
WO 95/362–75: Third Army General Staff War Diary
WO 95/380: Third Army AQMG War Diary
WO 95/718–19: IV Corps General Staff War Diary
WO 95/727: IV Corps AQMG War Diary
WO 95/730: IV Corps CRA War Diary
WO 95/733: IV Corps CHA War Diary
WO 95/736: IV Corps CRE War Diary
WO 95/737–41: IV Corps Troops War Diary
WO 95/750–2: V Corps General Staff War Diary
WO 95/754–5: V Corps A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/756: V Corps CRA War Diary
WO 95/757: V Corps CHA War Diary
WO 95/760: V Corps CRE, ADOS War Diary
WO 95/761–4: V Corps Troops War Diary
WO 95/774–5: VI Corps General Staff War Diary
WO 95/781: VI Corps AQMG War Diary
WO 95/783: VI Corps CRA War Diary
WO 95/789: VI Corps CHA War Diary
WO 95/791: VI Corps CRE, ADOS War Diary
WO 95/792: VI Corps Troops War Diary
WO 95/794: VI Corps SMTC War Diary
WO 95/795: VI Corps Motor Transport Column War Diary
WO 95/796: 2nd Divisional Supply Column War Diary
WO 95/798: Guards Divisional Motor Transport Company War Diary
WO 95/799: 3rd Divisional Supply Column War Diary
WO 95/936: XVII Corps General Staff War Diary
WO 95/940–1: XVII Corps A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/943: XVII Corps CRA War Diary
WO 95/944: XVII Corps CHA War Diary
WO 95/946: XVII Corps CRE War Diary
WO 95/947–9: XVII Corps Troops War Diary
WO 95/1195–6: Guards Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/1200: Guards Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/1214: 1st Guards Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1215: 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards War Diary
WO 95/1216: 1st Battalion Irish Guards War Diary
WO 95/1218: 2nd Guards Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1219: 1st Battalion Scots Guards, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards War Diary
WO 95/1222: 3rd Guards Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1223: 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards War Diary
WO 95/1224: 1st Battalion Welsh Guards War Diary
WO 95/1301–4: 2nd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/1311: 2nd Division AQMG War Diary
WO 95/1319: 2nd Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/1322: 2nd Division CRE War Diary
WO 95/1325: 36th Brigade RFA War Diary
WO 95/1327: 41st Brigade RFA War Diary
WO 95/1346: 5th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1347: 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/1348: 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/1349: 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1357: 6th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1360: 1st Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1362: 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1363: 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1370: 99th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1371: 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps War Diary
WO 95/1372: 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1381–2: 3rd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/1388–9: 3rd Division A&Q War Diary
WO 95/1394: 3rd Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/1419–20: 8th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1421: 7th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/1422: 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1423: 2nd Battalion Royal Scots War Diary
WO 95/1428: 9th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1429: 13th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1430: 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1431: 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/1434: 76th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1435: 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, 8th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1437: 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1516: 5th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/1520: 5th Division AQMG War Diary
WO 95/1524: 5th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/1551: 13th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1552: 2nd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Border Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1555: 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1556: 14th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1557: 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1569: 15th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1570: 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1571: 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1573: 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1574: 16th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1576: 95th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/1578: 1st Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1579: 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1580: 12th Battalion Gloucester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/1985: 17th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/1986: 17th Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/1988: 17th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/1990: 17th Division CRE War Diary
WO 95/1999: 50th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2001: 6th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2003: 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2004: 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2006: 51st Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2007: 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2008: 7th Battalion Border Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2011: 52nd Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2012: 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2014: 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2057: 19th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2058: 19th Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2062: 19th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2077: 56th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2078: 4th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/2079: 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2082: 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2084: 57th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2089: 58th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2092: 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 9th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2133–4: 21st Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2135: 21st Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2138: 21st Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2139: 21st Division CRE War Diary
WO 95/2153: 62nd Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2154: 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2155: 12th/13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
WO 95/2160: 64th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2161: 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/2162: 9th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/2163: 110th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2164: 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2165: 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2192: 24th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2194: 24th Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2195: 24th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2205: 17th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2206: 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2208: 8th Battalion Royal West Surrey (The Queen’s) Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2212: 72nd Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2213: 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, 8th Battalion The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2215: 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2217: 73rd Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2218: 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2407: 33rd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2409: 33rd Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2410: 33rd Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2411: 33rd Division CRE War Diary
WO 95/2421: 19th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2422: 1st Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, 1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 5th/6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) War Diary
WO 95/2425: 98th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2426: 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders War Diary
WO 95/2427: 4th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2429: 100th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2430: 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, 16th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps War Diary
WO 95/2431: 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/2515: 37th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2516: 37th Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2517: 37th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2528: 63rd Infantry Brigade, 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2529: 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/2531: 111th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2532: 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2533: 13th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps War Diary
WO 95/2534: 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2536: 112th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2537: 1st Battalion Essex Regiment, 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2538: 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2540: 38th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2541: 38th Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/2542: 38th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2554: 113th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2556: 16th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2558: 114th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2559: 13th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 15th Battalion Welsh Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2560: 115th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2561: 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, 17th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2562: 10th Battalion South Wales Borderers War Diary
WO 95/2646: 42nd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2647: 42nd Division A&Q, CRA War Diary
WO 95/2648: 42nd Division CRE, DADOS War Diary
WO 95/2649: 42nd Divisional Artillery War Diary
WO 95/2654: 125th Infantry Brigade, 1st/ 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers War Diary
WO 95/2656: 126th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2657: 1st/5th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, 1st/8th Battalion Manchester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2658: 1st/10th Battalion Manchester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2659: 127th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2660: 1st/5th Manchester Regiment, 1st/6th Manchester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2661: 1st/7th Manchester Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2967: 57th Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/2968: 57th Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/2977: 170th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2978: 2nd/4th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2979: 1st/5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2981: 171st Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2982: 2nd/7th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2983: 2nd/6th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment, 1st/8th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/2984: 172nd Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/2985: 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd/4th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, 1st/9th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3036: 61st Division General Staff, A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/3038: 61st Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/3041: 61st Division CRE, DADOS War Diary
WO 95/3064: 184th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3065: 2nd/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3066: 2nd/5th Gloucestershire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3071: 62nd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/3072: 62nd Division AQMG War Diary
WO 95/3073: 62nd Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/3075: 62nd Trench Mortar Battery War Diary
WO 95/3080: 185th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3083: 1st/5th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, 2nd/20th Battalion London Regiment, 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3085: 186th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3086: 2nd/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, 5th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3087: 2nd/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3089: 187th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3090: 2nd/4th Battalion Yorks and Lancs Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3091: 5th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd/4th Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry War Diary
WO 95/3097: 63rd Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/3099: 63rd Division A&Q Branch, CRA War Diary
WO 95/3109: 188th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3110: 1st Battalion Royal Marines, Anson Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3111: 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3113: 189th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3114: Hawke Battalion, Drake Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3115: Hood Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3117: 190th Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3118: 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3119: 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 1/28th London (1st Artists Rifles) Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3661: New Zealand Division General Staff War Diary
WO 95/3662: New Zealand Division A&Q Branch War Diary
WO 95/3665: New Zealand Division CRA War Diary
WO 95/3686–7: 1st New Zealand Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3688: 1st Battalion Auckland Regiment, 2nd Battalion Auckland Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3689: 1st Battalion Wellington Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3690: 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3691: 1st New Zealand Light Trench Mortar Battery War Diary
WO 95/3696: 2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3698: 1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3700: 2nd Battalion Canterbury Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3702: 1st Battalion Otago Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3703: 2nd Battalion Otago Regiment War Diary
WO 95/3707: 3rd New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade War Diary
WO 95/3708: 1st New Zealand Rifle Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3709: 2nd New Zealand Rifle Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3710: 3rd New Zealand Rifle Battalion War Diary
WO 95/3711: 4th New Zealand Rifle Battalion War Diary
WO 157/164–7: Third Army Intelligence Summaries
WO 157/380–3: IV Corps Intelligence Summaries
WO 157/629–31: New Zealand Division Intelligence Summaries
WO 158/20: General Staff Notes on Operations
WO 158/25: Correspondence, Haig and War Office
WO 158/227–8: Third Army Operations
WO 158/422: XVII Corps Operations
WO 158/803: Tank Corps Training
WO 256/33–7: Sir Douglas Haig Diary

(ii) Private papers

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Hart, Diary, Micro-MS-0552
Hay, Reminiscences, MS-Papers-1619–215
General Sir Andrew Russell, Diary, ‘The Russell Saga’, qMS-0822

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany

N 18/4, 6: Nachlass Generaloberst W. Heye
N 46/129, 157: Nachlass Wilhelm Groener
N 87/2, 65: Nachlass von Below

Imperial War Museum, London

Colonel C. J. L. Allanson DS/MISC/69
Colonel J. H. Boraston 71/13/2
T. P. Bovingdon 81/34/1
General Sir Julian Byng, Special Order of the Day, Misc 33/600
Captain H. S. Calverley 05/55/1
Colonel Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller 80/32/2
Major R. S. Cockburn P 258
Major V. E. Cotton Letters 93/25/1
Captain M. J. H. Drummond DS/MISC/29
Major C. H. Dudley-Ward 94/30/1
Brigadier-General R. C. Foot 86/57/1
Brigadier-General A. M. Henley P 427
Brigadier-General A. E. Hodgkin 12237
General Lord Horne 62/54/68 File 46
Brigadier-General G. N. Johnston 01/12/1
Brigadier General R. J. Kentish 98/12/1
G. N. C. Martin 01/21/1
General Sir Ivor Maxse PP/MCR/C42, Files 55, 59, 60
Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney 66/257/1
General Sir Andrew Thorne AT/9
Brigadier H. C. N. Trollope PP/MCR/212
Brigadier General L. C. G. Tufnell 92/41/1

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London

Benson 6/24–6/34
Clive II/4
Edmonds III/15
Fuller I/7/17
LH 1/322/6
LH 15/8/32–34, 40, 41, 44, 45
LH 15/14/10
Montgomery-Massingberd 7/32–3, 37

The National Archives, Kew

WO 256/33–7: Sir Douglas Haig Diary

National Army Museum, Chelsea

Ponsonby Papers 1963–06–69
Rawlinson Papers 5201–33–78
General Sir Andrew Thorne 8703–31–596 to 790

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

General Sir Aylmer Haldane Diary

Published primary material

(i) Official published material

France

Armée, Service Historique, Les armées françaises dans La Grande Guerre, Tome VII, Volume I (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1923)

Germany

Bayerische Kriegsarchiv, Die Bayern im großen Kriege 1914–1918 (Munich: Verlag des bayerischen Kriegsarchivs, 1923)

Cron, Hermann, Imperial German Army 1914–18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle (C. F. Colton, trans.) (Solihull: Helion, 2002)

Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Die militärische Operationen zu Lande, Band XIV and Annexes, Die Kriegführung an der Westfront im Jahre 1918 (Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1944)

Reichswehrministerium, Sanitätsbericht über das deutsche Heer [. . .] im Weltkriege 1914–1918 3 volumes (Berlin, 1934–8)

Untersuchungsausschuss der deutschen Verfassunggebenden Nationalversamm-lung und des deutschen Reichstages, Die Ursachen des deutschen Zusammenbruchs im Jahre 1918 Volumes III and VI (Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellchaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1925 and 1928)

Great Britain

Army Doctrine Publication 1: Operations (Army Code 71565), Prepared under the Direction of the Chief of the General Staff (1994)

Beach, James (intro.), The German Army Handbook of 1918 (Barnsley: Frontline, 2008)

Becke, A. F., History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Order of Battle of Divisions 6 volumes (London: HMSO, 1935)

Cole, Christopher (ed.), Royal Air Force Communiques 1918 (London: Tom Donovan, 1990)

Edmonds, J. E., History of the Great War: Military Operations France and Belgium 1916 Volume I: Sir Douglas Haig’s Command to the 1st July; Battle of the Somme (London: Macmillan, 1932)

Edmonds, J. E.History of the Great War: Military Operations France and Belgium 1918 Volume IV: 8th August–26th September: The Franco-British Offensive (London: HMSO, 1947)

Edmonds, J. E. and Maxwell-Hyslop, R., History of the Great War: Military Operations France and Belgium 1918 Volume V: 26th September–11th November: The Advance to Victory (London: HMSO, 1947)

General Staff, War Office, Field Service Regulations Part I: Operations 1909 (London: HMSO, 1909)

General Staff, War OfficeField Service Regulations Part II: Organisation and Administration 1909 (London: HMSO, 1909)

General Staff, War OfficeInfantry Training (4-Company Organisation): 1914 (London: HMSO, 1914)

Henniker, A. M., Transportation on the Western Front (London: HMSO, 1937)

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United States of America

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(ii) Diaries, memoirs, unit histories

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AnonThe King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1918 (Winchester: Warren and Son, 1919)

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Atteridge, A. Hilliard, History of the 17th (Northern) Division (Glasgow: Robert Maclehose, 1929)

Bacon, Alban F. L., The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior: A Territorial Officer’s Narrative of Service (and Sport) in Three Continents (London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1922)

Baker-Carr, C. D., From Chauffeur to Brigadier (London: Ernest Benn, 1930)

Bavaria, Crown Prince Rupprecht of, In Treue fest: Mein Kriegstagebuch (Eugen von Frauholz, ed.) (Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1929)

Beach, Jim (ed.), The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam 1910–1942 (Stroud: Army Records Society, 2010)

Blohm, Erich, Vogel, Ernst and Saupe, Gottfried, Das Kgl. Sächs. Schützen-Regiment‚ ‘Prinz Georg’ Nr. 108 (Dresden: Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch, 1926)

Blunden, Edmund, Undertones of War (London: Penguin, 2000; first published 1928)

Boraston, J. H. (ed.), Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches (December 1915 – April 1919) (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1919)

Brandis, Cordt von, Die vom Douaumont: Das Ruppiner Regiment 24 im Weltkrieg (Berlin: Tradition Wilhelm Kolk, 1930)

Brederlow, Tido von, Geschichte des 1. Garde-Reserve-Regiments (Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1929)

Byrne, J. R., New Zealand Artillery in the Field: 1914–18 (Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922)

Chapman, Guy, A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1933)

Cumming, Hanway R., A Brigadier in France 1917–1918 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1922)

Dieterich, Karl, Winter, Oscar, Simm, Carl and Floto, Friedrich, Das Niedersäschsische Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 46 im Kriege 1914–1918 (Braunschweig: Georg Westermann, 1934)

Dunn, J. C., The War the Infantry Knew 1914–1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium (London: Jane’s, 1987; first published 1938)

Etzel, Hans, Das K.B. 9. Infanterie-Regiment (Munich: Max Schick, 1928)

Foch, Ferdinand, The Memoirs of Marshal Foch (T. Bentley Mott, trans.) (London: William Heinemann, 1931)

Fraser, David (ed.), In Good Company: The First World War Letters, and Diaries of the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders (Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1990)

Fuller, J. F. C., Tanks in the Great War: 1914–1918 (London: John Murray, 1920)

Fuller, J. F. C.Memoirs of an Unconventional Soldier (London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936)

Gibbon, Frederick P., The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914–1918 (London: Country Life, 1920)

Glubb, John, Into Battle: A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War (London: Cassell, 1978)

Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That (London: Penguin, 2000; first published 1929)

Gurwood, John (ed.), The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington Volume VI (London: Parker, Furnival and Parker, 1845)

Haldane, Aylmer, A Soldier’s Saga: The Autobiography of General Sir Aylmer Haldane (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1948)

Haleck, (Fritz), Das Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 208 (Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1922)

Headlam, Cuthbert, History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915–1918 Volume II (London: John Murray, 1924)

Hoeppner, Ernst von, Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft (Leipzig: K. F. Koehler, 1921)

Jackson, John, Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy (Stroud: Tempus, 2005)

Jerrold, Douglas, The Royal Naval Division (London: Hutchinson, 1923)

Kelly, D. V., 39 Months: With the ‘Tigers’, 1915–1918 (London: Ernest Benn, 1930)

Kipling, Rudyard, The Irish Guards in the Great War Volume I: The First Battalion (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1923)

Kuhl, H. von, Der deutsche Generalstab in Vorbereitung und Durchführung des Weltkrieges (Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1920)

Lademann, Ulrich, Das 3. Magdeburgische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 66 (Berlin: Gerhard Stalling, 1922)

Loßberg, Fritz von, Meine Tätigkeit im Weltkriege 1914–1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1939)

Ludendorff, Erich, Urkunden der Obersten Heeresleitung über ihre Tätigkeit 1916/18 (Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1920)

Ludendorff, ErichMy War Memories: 1914–1918 (London: Hutchinson, n.d., 2nd edition)

Lyttelton, Oliver (Viscount Chandos), From Peace to War: A Study in Contrast 1857–1918 (London: Bodley Head, 1968)

Manwald, Werner, Geschichte des Reserve-Inf-Regts. 206 (Berlin: Max Galle, 1931)

Meyer, Alfred, 2. Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 101 (Dresden: Wilhelm und Bertha v. Baensch, 1924)

Monash, John, The Australian Victories in France in 1918 (London: Hutchinson, 1920)

Montgomery, Archibald, The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919)

Morgen, Curt von, Meiner Truppen Heldenkämpfe (Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1920)

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Offizieren des Regiments, Das K.B. 14. Infanterie-Regiment Hartmann (Munich: Max Schick, 1931)

O’Neill, H. C., The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War (London: William Heinemann, 1922)

Plehwe, R. von, Major, Geschichte des 2. Garde-Reserve-Regiments Volume II: Von Mitte Oktober 1915 bis Januar 1919 (Berlin: Max Galle, 1921)

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Later works

(i) Articles and chapters

Badsey, Stephen, ‘Cavalry and the Development of Breakthrough Doctrine’ in Paddy Griffith (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 138–74

Bailey, Jonathan, ‘British Artillery in the Great War’ in Paddy Griffith (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 23–49

Bailey, Jonathan B. A. ‘The First World War and the Birth of Modern Warfare’ in MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (eds.), The Dynamics of Military Revolution 1300–2050 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 132–53

Beckett, Ian F. W., ‘Henry Rawlinson’ in Ian F. W. Beckett and Steven J. Corvi (eds.), Haig’s Generals (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2006), 164–82

Behagg, A., ‘Increasing Tempo on the Modern Battlefield’ in Brian Holden Reid (ed.), The Science of War: Back to First Principles (London: Routledge, 1993), 110–30

Britt, Thomas W., and Dickinson, James M., ‘Morale during Military Operations: A Positive Psychology Approach’ in Thomas W. Britt, Carl Andrew Castro and Amy B. Adler (eds.), Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat Volume I: Military Performance (Westport: Praeger, 2006), 157–84

Brooke, A. F., ‘The Evolution of Artillery in the Great War’, Journal of the Royal Artillery 51 (1924), 250–68, 359–72; 52 (1925–6), 37–51, 369–87; 53 (1927), 76–93, 233–51, 320–39, 469–82

Brown, Ian M., ‘Not Glamorous, But Effective: The Canadian Corps and the Set-Piece Attack, 1917–1918’, Journal of Military History 58 (July 1994), 421–44

Compton, T. E., ‘The Campaign of 1918 in France’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institution 65 (1920), 164–84

Cook, Tim, ‘The Politics of Surrender: Canadian Soldiers and the Killing of Prisoners in the Great War’, Journal of Military History 70 no. 3 (July 2006), 637–66

Cook, Tim ‘Bloody Victory: The Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Campaign’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 161–81

Deist, Wilhelm, ‘Verdeckter Militärstreik im Kriegsjahr 1918?’ in Wolfram Wette (ed.), Der Krieg des kleinen Mannes: Eine Militärgeschichte von unten (Munich: Piper, 1992), 146–67

Deist, Wilhelm ‘The Military Collapse of the German Empire: The Reality behind the Stab-in-the-Back Myth’ (E. J. Feuchtwanger, trans.), War in History 3 no. 2 (April 1996), 186–207

Ekins, Ashley, ‘Fighting to Exhaustion: Morale, Discipline and Combat Effectiveness in the Armies of 1918’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 111–29

Feltman, Brian K., ‘Tolerance as a Crime? The British Treatment of German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914–1918’, War in History 17 no. 4 (November 2010), 435–58

Ferguson, Niall, ‘Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat’, War in History 11 no. 2 (April 2004), 148–92

Foley, Robert T., ‘From Victory to Defeat: The German Army in 1918’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 69–88

French, David, ‘Doctrine and Organisation in the British Army, 1919–1932’, Historical Journal 44 No. 2 (June 2001), 497–515

Gardner, Nikolas, ‘Julian Byng’ in Ian F. W. Beckett and Steven J. Corvi (eds.), Haig’s Generals (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2006), 54–74

Geyer, Michael, ‘Insurrectionary Warfare: The German Debate about a Levee en Masse in October 1918’, Journal of Modern History 73 no. 3 (September 2001), 459–527

Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, ‘A French Victory, 1918’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 89–98

Gregory, Andrew, ‘The Choreographed Battle within the Manoeuvrist Approach – The Hundred Days Campaign of 1918’ in Peter Gray (ed.), Military History into the 21st Century, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute Occasional Paper No. 43 (Camberley, 2001), 35–53

Harris, J. P., ‘The Rise of Armour’ in Paddy Griffith (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 113–37

Harris, Paul and Marble, Sanders, ‘The “Step-by-Step” Approach: British Military Thought and Operational Method on the Western Front, 1915–1917’, War in History 15, no. 1 (January 2008), 17–42

Jones, Edgar and Wessely, Simon, ‘Psychiatric Battle Casualties: An Intra- and Interwar Comparison’, British Journal of Psychiatry 178 (2001), 242–7

Jordan, David, ‘The Royal Air Force and Air/Land Integration in the 100 Days, August–November 1918’, Air Power Review 11 no. 2 (Summer 2008), 12–29

Lee, John, ‘The SHLM Project – Assessing the Battle Performance of British Divisions’ in Paddy Griffith (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 175–81

Luvaas, Jay, ‘European Military Thought and Doctrine 1870–1914’ in Michael Howard (ed.), The Theory and Practice of War: Essays Presented to Captain B. H. Liddell Hart on his Seventieth Birthday (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966), 69–94

Manning, Frederick J., ‘Morale and Cohesion in Military Psychiatry’, in Franklin D. Jones, Linette R. Sparacino, Victoria L. Wilcox and Joseph M. Rothberg (eds.), Military Psychiatry: Preparing in Peace for War (Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, 1994), 1–18

Martin, Gregory, ‘German Strategy and Military Assessments of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), 1917–18’, War in History 1 no. 2 (1994), 160–96

‘Mercury’, ‘Intercommunication in Battle: An Unsolved Mystery’, Army Quarterly 11 (October 1925–January 1926), 97–105

Otley, C. B., ‘The Social Origins of British Army Officers’, Sociological Review 18 (1970), 213–39

Otley, C. B. ‘The Educational Background of British Army Officers’, Sociology 7 (1973), 191–209

Palazzo, Albert, ‘The British Army’s Counter Battery Staff Office and Control of the Enemy in World War I’, Journal of Military History 63 (January 1999), 55–74

Pedersen, Peter, ‘Maintaining the Advance: Monash, Battle Procedure and the Australian Corps in 1918’, in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 130–45

Philpott, William, ‘Marshal Foch and Allied Victory’ in Matthew Hughes and Matthew Seligmann (eds.), Leadership in Conflict 1914–1918 (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2000), 38–53

Pöhlmann, Markus, ‘Yesterday’s Battles and Future War: The German Official Military History, 1918–1939’ in Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 223–38

Prior, Robin, ‘Stabbed in the Front: The German Defeat in 1918’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 45–53

Rowan-Robinson, H., ‘The Limited Objective’, Army Quarterly 2 (April–July 1921), 119–29

Sheffield, G. D., ‘The Indispensable Factor: The Performance of British Troops in 1918’ in Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), 1918: Defining Victory: Proceedings of the Chief of Army’s History Conference held at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, 29 September 1998 (Canberra: Army History Unit, Department of Defence, 1999)

Sheffield, Gary ‘Finest Hour? British Forces on the Western Front in 1918: An Overview’ in Ashley Ekins (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010), 54–68

Simkins, Peter, ‘Co-Stars or Supporting Cast? British Divisions in the “Hundred Days”, 1918’ in Paddy Griffith (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 50–69

Simkins, Peter ‘Haig and the Army Commanders’ in Brian Bond and Nigel Cave (eds.), Haig: A Reappraisal 70 Years On (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1999), 78–106

Simkins, Peter ‘Somme Reprise: Reflections on the Fighting for Albert and Bapaume, August 1918’ in British Commission for Military History, ‘Look to your Front’: Studies in the First World War (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999), 147–62

Simkins, Peter ‘“Building Blocks”: Aspects of Command and Control at Brigade Level in the BEF’s Offensive Operations, 1916–1918’ in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds.), Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army’s Experience 1914–1918 (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004), 141–71

Simpson, Andy, ‘British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914–1918’ in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds.), Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army’s Experience 1914–1918 (Staplehurst, Spellmount, 2004), 97–118

Strachan, Hew, ‘The Morale of the German Army 1917–18’ in Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle (eds.), Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced (London: Leo Cooper, 1996), 383–98

Strachan, Hew ‘Essay and Reflection: On Total War and Modern War’, International History Review, 22 no. 2 (June 2000), 341–70

Todman, Dan, ‘The Grand Lamasery Revisited: General Headquarters on the Western Front’ in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds.), Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army’s Experience 1914–1918 (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004), 39–70

Todman, Dan and Sheffield, Gary, ‘Command and Control in the British Army on the Western Front’ in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds.), Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army’s Experience 1914–1918 (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004), 1–11

Trauschweizer, Ingo Wolfgang, ‘Learning with an Ally: The U.S. Army and the Bundeswehr in the Cold War’, Journal of Military History 72 no. 2 (April 2008), 477–508

Travers, T. H. E., ‘The Offensive and the Problem of Innovation in British Military Thought, 1870–1915’, Journal of Contemporary History 13 (1978), 531–53

Travers, Tim ‘The Hidden Army: Structural Problems in the British Officer Corps, 1900–1918’, Journal of Contemporary History 17 no. 3 (July 1982), 523–44

Vardi, Gil-li, ‘Joachim von Stülpnagel’s Military Thought and Planning’, War in History 17 no. 2 (April 2010), 193–216

Vaughan, Louis, ‘Byng of Vimy: An Appreciation’, Army Quarterly 31 (October 1935–January 1936), 11–16

Watson, Alexander, ‘Self-Deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914–18’, Journal of Contemporary History 41, no. 2 (April 2006), 247–68

Watson, Alexander ‘Junior Officership in the German Army during the Great War, 1914–1918’, War in History 14 no. 4 (November 2007), 429–53

Ziemann, Benjamin, ‘Fahnenflucht im deutschen Heer 1914–1918’, Militärge-schichtliche Mitteilungen 55 no. 1 (1996) 93–130

(ii) Books

Bailey, J. B. A., Field Artillery and Firepower (Oxford: The Military Press, 1989)

Bailey, J. B. A.The First World War and the Birth of the Modern Style of Warfare, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute Occasional Paper No. 22 (Camberley, 1996)

Barr, Niall, Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein (London: Pimlico, 2005)

Baynes, John, Morale: A Study of Men and Courage: The Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915 (London: Cassell, 1967)

Baynes, JohnFar from a Donkey: The Life of General Sir Ivor Maxse (London: Brassey’s, 1995)

Beckett, Ian F. W., The Great War: 1914–1918 (Harlow: Pearson, 2001)

Beckett, Ian F. W. and Simpson, Keith (eds.), A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985)

Bellamy, Christopher, The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare: Theory and Practice (London: Routledge, 1990)

Bernhardi, Friedrich von, Deutschlands Heldenkampf 1914–1918 (Munich: J. F. Lehmann, 1922)

Biddle, Stephen, Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)

Bidwell, Shelford and Graham, Dominick, Fire-Power: British Army Weapons and Theories of War 1904–1945 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982)

Blaxland, Gregory, Amiens 1918 (London: Frederick Muller, 1968)

Bond, Brian, The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854–1914 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1972)

Bond, BrianThe Pursuit of Victory: From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Bond, Brian (ed.), The First World War and British Military History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)

Bourne, John, Liddle, Peter and Whitehead, Ian, The Great World War 1914–45 Volume I: Lightning Strikes Twice (London: HarperCollins, 2000)

Brecht, Arnold, The Political Education of Arnold Brecht: An Autobiography 1884–1970 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970)

British Commission for Military History, ‘Look to Your Front’: Studies in the First World War (Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999)

Brown, Ian Malcolm, British Logistics on the Western Front 1914–1919 (Westport: Praeger, 1998)

Brown, Malcolm, The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918: Year of Victory (London: Pan, 1999)

Buckley, John, Air Power in the Age of Total War (London: UCL Press, 1999)

Citino, Robert M., The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005)

Clausewitz, Carl von, On War (Michael Howard and Peter Paret, ed. and trans.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976)

Clayton, Anthony, The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the Present (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2006)

Cohen, Eliot A., and Gooch, John, Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War (New York: Free Press, 2006)

Condell, Bruce and Zabecki, David T. (ed. and trans), On the German Art of War: Truppenführung (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001)

Connelly, Mark: Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region, and the Great War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Cook, Tim, Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917–1918 (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008)

Corrigan, Gordon, Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (London: Cassell, 2003)

Creveld, Martin van, Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939–1945 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983)

Creveld, Martin VanCommand in War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985)

Creveld, Martin VanThe Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq (New York: Presidio, 2008)

Davies, W. J. K., Light Railways of the First World War: A History of Tactical Rail Communications on the British Fronts, 1914–18 (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967)

Davis, Belinda J., Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

Deist, Wilhelm, Militär und Innenpolitik im Weltkrieg 1914–1918 Volume II (Dusseldorf: Droste, 1990)

Dennis, Peter and Grey, Jeffrey (eds.), 1918: Defining Victory: Proceedings of the Chief of Army’s History Conference held at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, 29 September 1998 (Canberra: Army History Unit, Department of Defence, 1999)

Dewar, George A. B. and Boraston, J. H., Sir Douglas Haig’s Command: December 19, 1915, to November 11, 1918 (London: Constable, 1922)

Duffy, Christopher, Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916 (London: Orion, 2007)

Dupuy, T. N., A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807–1945 (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977)

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Echevarria II, Antulio J., After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers before the Great War (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000)

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Fennell, Jonathan, Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign: The Eighth Army and Path to El Alamein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Ferguson, Niall, The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane, 1998)

Ferris, John (ed.), The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War (Stroud: Alan Sutton for Army Records Society, 1992)

Foley, Robert T., German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

French, David, The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)

French, DavidRaising Churchill’s Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

French, DavidMilitary Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People, c. 1870–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Fuller, J. F. C., The Foundations of the Science of War (London: Hutchinson, 1926)

Fuller, J. F. C.The Decisive Battles of the Western World and their Influence upon History Volume III: From the American Civil War to the End of the Second World War (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956)

Gill, Douglas and Dallas, Gloden, The Unknown Army (London: Verso, 1985)

Gilmour, Robin, The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981)

Girouard, Mark, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981)

Gordon, Andrew, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command (London: John Murray, 2005)

Goya, Michel, La chair et l’acier: l’armée francaise et l’invention de la guerre moderne (1914–1918) (Paris: Tallandier, 2004)

Green, Andrew, Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915–1948 (London: Frank Cass, 2003)

Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Griffith, Paddy, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army’s Art of Attack 1916–18 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)

Griffith, Paddy (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996)

Guderian, Heinz, Achtung-Panzer! The Development of Armoured Forces, their Tactics and Operational Potential (Christopher Duffy, trans.) (London: Arms and Armour, 1995)

Gudmundsson, Bruce I., Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914–1918 (New York: Praeger, 1989)

Gudmundsson, Bruce I.On Artillery (Westport: Praeger, 1993)

Hammond, Bryn, Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)

Harper, Glyn, Dark Journey: Three Key New Zealand Battles of the Western Front (Auckland: HarperCollins, 2007)

Harris, J. P., Men, Ideas and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903–1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995)

Harris, J. P.Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Harris, J. P. with Barr, Niall, Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hundred Days’ Campaign 8 August–11 November 1918 (London: Brassey’s, 1998)

Hart, Peter, 1918: A Very British Victory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)

Hartcup, Guy, The War of Invention: Scientific Developments, 1914–18 (London: Brassey’s, 1988)

Henderson, G. F. R., The Science of War: A Collection of Essays and Lectures 1892–1903 (Neill Malcolm, ed.) (London: Longmans, Green, 1905)

Herwig, Holger H., The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (London: Arnold, 1997)

Holmes, Richard, Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914–1918 (London: Harper Perennial, 2005)

Holmes, Richard (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

House, Jonathan M., Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001)

Hughes, Matthew and Seligmann, Matthew (eds.), Leadership in Conflict 1914–1918 (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2000)

Hull, Isabel V., Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)

Jahr, Christoph, Gewöhnliche Soldaten: Desertion und Deserteure im deutsche und britischen Heer 1914–1918 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998)

Johnson, Hubert C., Breakthrough! Tactics, Technology and the Search for Victory on the Western Front in World War I (Novato: Presidio, 1994)

Johnson, J. H., 1918: The Unexpected Victory (London: Arms and Armour, 1997)

Kipling, Rudyard, ‘Slaves of the Lamp (Part II)’, The Complete Stalky & Co. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

Kirke, Charles, Red Coat, Green Machine: Continuity in Change in the British Army 1700 to 2000 (London: Continuum, 2009)

Kitchen, Martin, The German Officer Corps 1890–1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

Kitchen, MartinThe Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916–1918 (London: Croom Helm, 1976)

Kuhl, Hermann von, Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918 Band II (Berlin: Tradition Wilhelm Kolk, 1929)

Liddell Hart, B. H., The Remaking of Modern Armies (Edinburgh: John Murray, 1927)

Lipp, Anne, Meinungslenkung im Krieg: Kriegserfahrungen deutscher Soldaten und inhre Deutung 1914–1918 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002)

Lupfer, Timothy T., The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Change in German Tactical Doctrine during the First World War (Leavenworth Paper No. 4: Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1981)

Luvaas, Jay, The Education of an Army: British Military Thought, 1815–1940 (London: Cassell, 1965)

Mackenzie, J. J. G. and Reid, Brian Holden (eds.), The British Army and the Operational Level of War (London: Tri-Service, 1989)

Maurice, F., The Last Four Months: How the War Was Won (Boston: Little, Brown, 1919)

McCluskey, Alistair, Amiens 1918: The Black Day of the German Army (Oxford: Osprey, 2008)

McInnes, Colin J., Men, Machines and the Emergence of Modern Warfare 1914–1945, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 (Camberley, 1992)

McInnes, Colin and Sheffield, G. D., Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Theory and Practice (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988)

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(iii) Theses

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Winning and Losing on the Western Front

The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918

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