Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War 1902-1914 by Simon Batten
The popular notion of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, as it prepared to embark for France in 1914, is of a small, professional Army comprised of regulars, experienced in practical soldiering from years of warfare throughout the British Empire. While this Army may have experienced hard campaigning in South Africa against the …
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