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Author:   Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Wolverhampton, UK) ,  Air Commodore (Ret'd) Dr Peter Gray (University of Birmingham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781474232975

ISBN 10:   1474232973
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Introduction Biographies of Contributors Introduction - Peter Gray, Ross Mahoney and Gary Sheffield 1. Command Culture and Complexity: Third Army during the Hundred Days, August-November 1918 - Jonathan Boff 2. ‘Delivering the Goods’. Operation Landovery Castle: A Logistical and Administrative Analysis of Canadian Corps Preparations for the Battle of Amiens 8-11 August, 1918 - Rob Thompson 3. ‘After Amiens’: Technology and Tactics in the British Expeditionary Force During the Advance to Victory, August – November 1918 - Bryn Hammond 4. The Last Battle of the B.E.F: The Crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal, 4 November 1918 - Niall Barr 5. War of Liberation: British Second Army and Coalition Warfare in Flanders in the Hundred Days - Dennis Williams 6. Behind the Lines: Sir Douglas Haig and the Cavalry Corps, September-October 1918 - Simon M Justice 7. The Air Ministry and the Formation of the Royal Air Force - Peter Gray 8. The Smuts Report: Interpreting and Misinterpreting the Promise of Air Power - Christopher Luck 9. The Genesis of Modern Warfare: The Contribution of Aviation Logistics - Peter Dye 10. The Genesis of Modern Air Power: the RAF in 1918 - David Jordan 11. The Battle of Amiens: Air-Ground Cooperation and its Implications for Imperial Policing - Simon Coningham 12. The Battle of Amiens and the Development of British Air Land Battle, 1918-1945 - Alistair McCluskey Bibliography Index

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All of the essays are interesting. Several, however, stand out either for their insights or their subject matter. Among these are those on the logistical preparations for the Battle of Amiens, combined arms operations during the Hundred Days, and the influence of air-ground cooperation during the campaign on subsequent British military thought. A volume in the series Birmingham War Studies, Changing War is not only important reading for serious students of World War I but also for anyone seriously interested in the development of combined arms operations. -- A. A. Nofi The NYMAS Review

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Gary Sheffield holds the Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He previously held a personal chair at King's College London, UK, and was Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He has published widely on military history. Peter Gray is RAeS Senior Research Fellow in Air Power Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.A retired senior officer of the Royal Air Force, he holds a PhD and is the author of The Leadership, Direction and Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive from Inception to 1945 (Continuum, 2012).

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