Forgotten Victory: The First World War -Myths and Realities
Publishing Details
Forgotten Victory: The First World War -Myths and Realities
By (Author) Professor Gary Sheffield
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
20th July 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
First World War
940.3
Physical Properties
320
Width 161mm, Height 30mm, Spine 241mm
629g
Description
Gary Sheffield contends that the popular view that the First World War was, in the words of historian John Keegan, 'tragic and unnecessary', is wrong. It is his strongly argued belief that such a conclusion does not represent the cutting edge of research into the most controversial conflict in British history. Based on twenty years of research, as well as reflecting the interpretations of the revisionist school of historians based around the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Imperial War Museum and the British Commission for Military History, this book challenges the fundamental assumptions underpinning the 'traditional' belief that the First World War was a wholly futile conflict.
Author Bio
Dr Gary Sheffield is Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, and Senior Lecturer at King s College London (War Studies Group). From 1985 to 1999 he taught in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
