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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2012
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139162555

Book description

The 'Hundred Days' campaign of 1918 remains a neglected aspect of the First World War. Why was the German army defeated on the Western Front? Did its morale collapse or was it beaten by the improved military effectiveness of a British army which had climbed a painful 'learning curve' towards modern combined arms warfare? This revealing insight into the crucial final months of the First World War uses state-of-the-art methodology to present a rounded case study of the ability of both armies to adapt to the changing realities they faced. Jonathan Boff draws on both British and German archival sources, some of them previously unseen, to examine how representative armies fought during the 'Hundred Days' campaign. Assessing how far the application of modern warfare underpinned the British army's part in the Allied victory, the book highlights the complexity of modern warfare and the role of organisational behaviour within it.

Awards

Shortlisted for the 2013 British Army Military Book of the Year Award

Reviews

‘A well-written and well-researched book that deserves a wider audience.’

Source: The Times

'… a welcome addition to the literature and a must read for scholars of the First World War as well as scholars interested in the question of why some armies succeed and others fail.'

Michael Neiberg Source: Journal of Military History

'Jonathan Boff has written a careful, thoughtful, and well-researched book that attempts to answer the vexed question: what caused the defeat of the German army on the western front in 1918?'

Source: The American Historical Review

'Winning and Losing on the Western Front is a remarkable book that takes us a quantum leap forward in our understanding of the how the 'Great War' ended in 1918.'

Source: Military Review

'… [a] fine specialist study … is in places boldly revisionist …'

Adrian Gregory Source: The English Historical Review

'Boff demonstrates mastery of both English and German language sources … In fact, one senses a mastery of the literature in his thorough presentation … His book will be most satisfying … for the expert in operational history, World War I battle, and in the character of leadership and of armies.'

Dean A. Nowowiejski Source: Parameters

'Boff’s research is solid, relying on archives located in Britain, Germany, and the Commonwealth countries.'

Robert M. Citino Source: German Studies Review

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Contents

Bibliography

Unpublished primary material

(i) Official documents

Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Abteilung IV: Kriegsarchiv, Munich, Germany

Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht Bund 10, 17, 26, 27, 33, 80, 91, 97, 99, 125, 126, 150, 157, 158

Generalkommando I. bayerische Reserve-Korps 176, 179, 181, 182

Generalkommando II. bayerische Armee-Korps 16, 20, 75, 76, 90

Generalkommando III. bayerische Armee-Korps 1, 31, 232

4. bayerische Infanterie-Division 1, 22, 27, 38, 52, 53, 62

5. bayerische Infanterie-Division 14, 116

16. bayerische Infanterie-Division 1, 7, 10

7. bayerische Infanterie-Brigade 23, 24

9. bayerische Infanterie-Brigade 37, 41

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany

PH 5 I/42

Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht War Diary

PH 5 I/47–8

Heeresgruppe Boehn War Diary

PH 5 II/96

Oberkommando der 17. Armee: Tankabwehr

PH 5 II/124–7

Armee Oberkommando 2 War Diary

PH 5 II/413

Armee Oberkommando 2 Officers’ Personal Files

PH 6 II/23

IV. Reservekorps Generalkommando War Diary

PH 6 V/41

Generalkommando LI War Diary

PH 6 V/68

Generalkommando LIV War Diary

PH 8 I/177–80

20. Infanterie Division War Diary

PH 8 I/534

113. Infanterie Division War Diary

PH 8 I/536

83. Infanterie-Division War Diary

PH 8 II/172

1. Garde-Reserve-Division War Diary

RH 61/148

Ueberblick über Organisation und Regelung des Mannschaftsersatzes für das deutsche Heer während des Weltkrieges

RH 61/980

Assorted Letters

RH 61/2071

Die Angriffe der Westgegner, August bis November 1918

The National Archives, Kew

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

AIR 1/677/21/13/1887

History: The Western Front: Air Operations May–November 1918

AIR 1/1497/204/39/7

No. 57 Squadron RAF Record Books

AIR 1/1499/204/39/4

No. 57 Squadron RAF Summary of Work

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

AIR 1/1808/204/161/4–5

13th Wing RAF Operation Orders

AIR 1/2243/209/42/21

III Brigade RAF War Diary and Combat Reports

CAB 45/184–7

Official History Correspondence: Third Army

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)
History of the Ministry of Munitions Volumes X, XI, XII: The Supply of Munitions (London: HMSO, 1921–2)
Jones, H. A., The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Volume VI (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937)
Macpherson, W. G., History of the Great War: Medical Services General History Volume III: Medical Services during the Operations on the Western Front in 1916, 1917 and 1918 (London: HMSO, 1924)
Mitchell, T. J. and Smith, G. M., History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War (London: HMSO, 1931)
War Office, Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War: 1914–1920 (London: HMSO, 1922)
Why Germany Capitulated on November 11, 1918: A Brief Study based on Documents in the Possession of the French General Staff (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919)

United States of America

Department of the Army, Field Manual on Leadership, Field Manual 22–100 (Washington: GPO, 1983)
Department of the ArmyU.S. Army Field Manual 100–5: Blueprint for the AirLand Battle (Washington DC: Brassey’s, 1991)
Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914–1918), compiled from Records of the Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France, 1919 (London: London Stamp Exchange, 1919)

(ii) Diaries, memoirs, unit histories

Anon., History of the 50th Infantry Brigade 1914–1919 (published privately, 1919)
AnonThe King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1918 (Winchester: Warren and Son, 1919)
AnonInfanterie-Regiment Generalfeldmarschall Prinz Friedrich Karl von Preussen (8. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 64 (Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1929)
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)
Murphy, C. C. R., The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914–1927 (London: Hutchinson, 1927)
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)
Priestley, R. E., The Signal Service in the European War of 1914 to 1918 (France) (Chatham: Institution of Royal Engineers, 1921)
Richards, Frank, Old Soldiers Never Die (Peterborough: Krijnen and Langley, 2004; first published 1933)
Robbins, Simon (ed.), The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne (Stroud: History Press, 2009)
Sheffield, Gary and Bourne, John (eds.), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
Sheffield, G. D. and Inglis, G. I. S. (eds.) From Vimy Ridge to the Rhine: The Great War Letters of Christopher Stone DSO MC (Marlborough: Crowood Press, 1989)
Sobbe, Freiherr von, Geschichte des braunschweigischen Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 92 im Weltkriege 1914 – 1918 (Berlin: Tradition Wilhelm Kolk, 1929)
Thaer, Albrecht von, Generalstabsdienst an der Front und in der O.H.L. (Siegfried A. Kaehler, ed.), (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1958)
Thompson, R. R., The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914–1918 (Glasgow: Maclehose Jackson, 1923)
Tschischwitz, General von (ed.), General von der Marwitz: Weltkriegsbriefe (Berlin: Ernst Steiniger, 1940)
Viereck, Helmut, Das Heideregiment Königlich Preußisches 2. Hannoverersches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 77 im Weltkriege 1914–1918 (Celle: August Pohl, 1934)
Weniger, Heinrich, Zobel, Arthur and Fels, Maximilian, Das K.B. 5. Infanterie-Regiment Großherzog Ernst Ludwig von Hessen (Munich: Max Schick, 1929)
Werner, Bernhard, Das Königlich Preußische Inf.-Rgt. Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen (2. Magdeb.) Nr. 27 im Weltkriege 1914 – 1918 (Berlin: Bernard & Graefe, 1933)
Wolff, H., Das Königlich Preußische Füsilier-Regiment Generalfeldmarschall Graf Blumenthal (Magdeburgisches) Nr. 36 im Weltkriege 1914/1918 (Eisleben: Winkler, 1931)
Wyrall, Everard, The History of the Second Division 1914–1918 Volume II (London: Thomas Nelson, 1922)
Wyrall, EverardThe History of the 62nd (West Riding) Division 1914–1919 (London: John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1925)

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, TimBloody 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, WilhelmThe 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, GaryFinest 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, PeterHaig and the Army Commanders’ in Brian Bond and Nigel Cave (eds.), Haig: A Reappraisal 70 Years On (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1999), 78–106
Simkins, PeterSomme 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, HewEssay 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, TimThe 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, AlexanderJunior 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)
Dupuy, T. N.Numbers, Predictions and War: Using History to Evaluate Combat Factors and Predict the Outcome of Armed Conflict (Fairfax: Hero, 1985)
Echevarria II, Antulio J., After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers before the Great War (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000)
Ekins, Ashley (ed.), 1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010)
Essame, H., The Battle for Europe 1918 (London: B.T. Batsford, 1972)
Falls, Cyril, The First World War (London: Longmans, 1960)
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)
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(iii) Theses

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Hammond, Christopher Brynley, ‘The Theory and Practice of Tank Cooperation with Other Arms on the Western Front during the First World War’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005)
Kenyon, David, ‘British Cavalry on the Western Front 1916–1918’ (Cranfield University, 2007)
Marble, William Sanders, ‘“The Infantry cannot do with a Gun less”: The Place of Artillery in the BEF, 1914–1918’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, King’s College London, 1998)
Molineux, Dave, ‘The Effect of Platoon Structure on Tactical Development in the BEF: June to November 1918’ (unpublished MA dissertation, University of Birmingham, 2009)

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