Call-to-Arms : The British Army, 1914-1918 by Messenger, Charles

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005,. /Dust Jacket Included. 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0297846957 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 574pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. not price-clipped. ISBN: 0297846957 .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson / The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2005. first edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG-; Ivory spine with dark green & red text; Dust jacket is covered with mylar and has lightly sunned exterior with minor wear on edges, some light rubbing on rear but otherwise intact; Cloth is clean with strong and intact panels; Text block shows slight wear on exterior with clean pages and tight binding; pp 574. 1297465. Full-priced Rockville.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005 In 1914 the British Army was scarcely more than an imperial police force of 250,000 men. By the end of the war, over 8.5 million men had been recruited by Britain and the average field strength of its armies was 3.3 million men. Charts how this new force was raised, trained and deployed. 574pp with black and white plates.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. 574 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs. "(B)y the end of the war, over 8.5 million men had been recruited by Britain and the average field strength of its armies was 3.3 million men. For the first time, Britain found itself obliged to field land forces equal to those of its Continental neighbours. Moreover, however uncertain its beginnings, by 1918 this was an army that had become the most effective fighting force on the Western Front. In this exceptional account of the administration of the British Army in the First World War, Messenger charts how this unprecedented new force was raised, trained and deployed. He looks in detail at the problems of recruitment and training and at the difficulties of integrating regular troops with volunteers, and, later, conscripted men. The central question of manpower, both on the home front and in the trenches, above all after the first enthusiastic flood of volunteers had dried up, is examined in… Read More

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