Richard Dannatt

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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40Hardcover, 12 September 2023

Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
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Print Length
352 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Osprey Publishing (UK)
Date Published
12 Sep 2023
ISBN-10
1472860861
ISBN-13
9781472860866

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A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.

The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on who Britain might have to fight, and how. Victory to Defeat clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn't prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn't prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army's leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940.

Victory to Defeat is a captivating history of the mismanagement of a war-winning army. It is also a stark warning that we neglect to understand who our enemy might be, and how to defeat him, at the peril of our country. The British Army is now to be cut to its smallest size since 1714. Are we, this book asks, repeating the same mistakes again?

Product Details

Authors:
Richard DannattRobert Lyman
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 September 2023
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.29 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
1472860861
ISBN-13:
9781472860866
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
352
Weight:
453.59 gm

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