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Soldiers and Gentlemen : Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918 /
Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914?1918 is the first book to examine the background, role and conduct of Australian commanding officers during the First World War. Though they held positions of power, commanding officers inhabited a leadership no man'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Australian Army history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Half-title page; Series page ; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Measurements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 'He Knows How to Make Soldiers': Raising the AIF; 2 'Everything is a Terrible Muddle': The Gallipoli Campaign, 1915; 3 'No Shortage of Senior Officers': Command Turnover; 4 'Serious, Scientific War': The Western Front and Trench Warfare, 1916-1917; 5 'The Hardest Task in the Army': Battalion Administration; 6 'A Good Man to Serve Under': Leadership and Personal Factors.
- 7 'The Destiny of the Empire': the Western Front, 1918Conclusion; Appendix A: COs' Periods of Command; Appendix B: Statistics; Appendix C: Battalion Organisation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.