Strategy and Intelligence: British Policy During the First World War

Strategy and Intelligence, which brings together original essays by a number of leading authorities on various aspects of the First World War, aims both to summarise the latest literature on Britain's participation in that war and also to open up new lines of investigation. These include the role of intelligence in land and air battles; Anglo-American financial relations; Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Irish relations; the British Labour movement in the war; and the final campaigns of 1918, which led to the Allied victory. These essays are written not only for the specialist but also to be accessible to students and to the general reader.

Strategy and Intelligence, which brings together original essays by a number of leading authorities on various aspects of the First World War, aims both to summarise the latest literature on Britain's participation in that war and also to open up new lines of investigation. These include the role of intelligence in land and air battles; Anglo-American financial relations; Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Irish relations; the British Labour movement in the war; and the final campaigns of 1918, which led to the Allied victory. These essays are written not only for the specialist but also to be accessible to students and to the general reader.

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A collection of essays dealing with administration, organization, and intelligence behind and on the front line in WWI, demonstrating that the achievement of both British military and civilians in organizing the nation for victory in 1918 provided important lessons for the next war. Discusses subjects such as Irish recruiting, wheat and the state, the impact of WWI on the labor movement, the retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the March 1918 offensive, and the decline of generalship. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.