The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18

Stephen Badsey

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781441153197
• eBook ISBN: 9781441174086
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War I
• Index: History

In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people.
Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid to modern television comedy. As a contribution to progressive military history, The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-1918 proves that the way the British Army fought and its portrayal through the media cannot be separated. It is one of a growing number of studies which show that, far from being in opposition to each other, cultural history and the history of battle must be combined for the First World War to be properly understood.
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Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Author’s Preface
• 1 Introduction: The Western Front in Public History 1914–2014
• 2 Douglas Haig and the Press 1914–1918
• 3 Blackadder Goes Forth and the ‘Two Western Fronts’ Debate 1914–1918
• 4 Cavalry and the Development of Breakthrough Doctrine 1914–1918
• 5 The Battle of The Somme (1916): The Film of the Battle
• 6 The Raid on Narrow Trench 1917
• 7 The Press, Propaganda and Passchendaele 1917
• 8 The Missing Western Front: Politics, Propaganda and Strategy 1918
• Bibliography
• Index