Mallinson - 1914: fight the good fight
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No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening, wrote Churchill. The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed.in fact the War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of fate.
In this major new history, one of Britains foremost military historians and defence experts tackles the origins - and the opening first few weeks of fighting - of what would become known as the war to end all wars. Intensely researched and convincingly argued, Allan Mallinson explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Armys regeneration after its drubbings in its...
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Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.
Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.
Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
Wars annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.
In Time of The Breaking of Nations
Thomas Hardy, 1915
The lamps are going out all over Europe;
we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Sir Edward Grey, August 1914
Also by Allan Mallinson
LIGHT DRAGOONS: THE MAKING OF A REGIMENT
THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH ARMY
The Matthew Hervey series
A CLOSE RUN THING
THE NIZAMS DAUGHTERS
A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR
A CALL TO ARMS
THE SABRES EDGE
RUMOURS OF WAR
AN ACT OF COURAGE
COMPANY OF SPEARS
MAN OF WAR
WARRIOR
ON HIS MAJESTYS SERVICE
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Prussian militarism. Otto von Bismarck (181598) in a cuirassiers uniform, although he had served but a year or so in his twenties.
Prussian militarism. Helmuth von Moltke (180091), architect of Bismarcks military victories and profound influence on subsequent military thinking.
Kaiser Wilhelm II (left), with Helmuth Johann von Moltke (right) and Admiral von Tirpitz (centre).
Kaiser Wilhelm and Moltke at the army manoeuvres in 1913. Although he had no military experience whatsoever, the Kaiser considered himself a military expert.
The principal signatures on the 1839 Treaty of London the scrap of paper which guaranteed Belgian independence.
Entente Cordiale: King Edward VII initiates reconciliation with France by a personal charm offensive in Paris, May 1903.
Lord Haldane, lord chancellor, formerly war minister, and (right) Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary, on their way to cabinet during the crisis of July 1914.
Major-General Henry Wilson, who as director of military operations at the War Office from 1910 to 1914 effectively dictated strategic policy.
Brilliant, procrastinating, distracted: the prime minister, H. H. Asquith, in July 1914.
His chief distraction, the Honourable Venetia Stanley, Asquiths daily letters to whom are an invaluable guide to the cabinets deliberations.
Winston Churchill as home secretary in 1911; the only member of the cabinet with the experience and capacity to think strategically about war in Europe.
David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, presumed (wrongly, in the end) to be the leader of the anti-war faction of the cabinet.
The starting pistol. Gavrilo Princip seized after firing the fatal shots in Sarajevo, 28 June 1914.
General Alexander von Kluck, commander of the German 1st Army on the great hook west through Belgium that crashed into the BEF at Mons on 23 August. British troops made full use of the rhyming possibilities of his name.
Prince Lichnowsky, the German ambassador, just before leaving London on 5 August, bitter at what the gangsters and swine in Berlin had done.
Westaufmarsch. German troops cross the Belgian border on 4 August in the first phase of the Schlieffen Plan.
Two photographs, both posed, but both illustrating Belgiums real and spirited resistance to German encroachment. Troops (on the left firing from the wrong side of cover) at an outpost in typical Flanders country;
The extensive bridge and railway demolitions which significantly slowed the German advance.
German troops finally overrun one of the outer forts at Lige, 15 August.
Reservists of the Grenadier Guards, recalled by telegram to their regimental depot at Wellington Barracks, London, 5 August. Some BEF units were two-thirds reservists.
Calling-up of registered horses, South Cave, East Yorkshire, also on 5 August. The BEF relied largely on horsepower still, and the equine mobilization procedures were as comprehensive as the human.
Irish (and Grenadier) Guardsmen readying to march out of barracks for France.
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