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ARTICLES
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‘Technology, Tactics and Morale: Jean de Bloch, the Boer War, and British Military Theory, 1900–1914 Journal of Modern History, vol. 17, no. 3 (June 1979), pp. 264–86. |
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‘The Hidden Army: Structural Problems in the British Officer Corps, 1900–1918’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 17, no. 3 (July 1982), pp. 523–44. |
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‘Learning and Decision-Making on the Western Front, 1915–1916: The British Example’ Journal of Canadian History, vol. 18, no. 1 (April 1983), pp. 87–97. |
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‘The Army and the Challenge of War 1914–1918’, in D. Chandler & I.F.W. Beckett (eds.), The Oxford History of the British Army (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; first published 1994), pp. 211–34. |
Williams, R. |
‘Lord Kitchener and the Battle of Loos: French Politics and British Strategy in the Summer of 1915’ in L. Freedman, P. Hayes & R. O’Neill (eds.), War, Strategy and International Politics. Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), pp. 117–32. |
FICTIONAL WORKS
Buchan,J. |
Greenmantle (Ware: Wordsworth, 1994). |
Masters, J. |
Now, God be Thanked (London: Sphere Books, 1979). |
Romaines,J. |
Verdun (London: Prion Books, 2000; first published 1938). |
Williamson, H. |
A Fox Under My Cloak (Stroud: Sutton, 1996; first published 1955). |
UNPUBLISHED THESES
Jordan, D.J. |
‘The Army Co-Operation Missions of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force 1914–1918’, Ph.D., Birmingham, 1997. |
Simpson, A. |
‘The Operational Role of British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914–18’, D. Phil., University College, London, 2003. |