Too Important for the Generals : How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War (Record no. 63438)
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| fixed length control field | 01684nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780553818666 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.4 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Mallinson, Allan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Too Important for the Generals : How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War |
| Statement of responsibility | Allan Mallinson |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Bantam Books |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxv, 372 Pages |
| Other physical details | 20x13 cm |
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| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Illustrations and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be over by Christmas. Now, in his major new history, Allan Mallinson, former professional soldier and author of the acclaimed 1914- Fight the Good Fight, provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties. He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making and struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it. And he asserts that both the British and the French failed to appreciate what the Americans' contribution to victory could be and, after the war, to acknowledge fully what it had actually been. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | War--Causes |
| -- | World War, 1914-1918 |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2021-06-08 | CRV/179/Gt-21/GPLM | 1404.00 | 940.4 M236T 2017 | 66172 | Books |