Steady the Buffs! - A Regiment, a Region, and the Great War

Zusatztext This book fully revises standard regimental history by establishing the framework and background to the regiment's role in the First World War... Using previously uncovered material, this book adds a significant new chapter to the understanding of the British army on the Western Front, and the way its home community in East Kent reacted to the experience. It reveals the way in which the regiment adjusted to the shock of modern warfare, and the bloody learning curve the Buffs ascended. Klappentext A reinvention of the traditional regimental history examining the role of a famous Kentish regiment, the Buffs, in the Great War. The book examines the backgrounds and attitudes of officers, men, and their families to the war and looks at its impact on the military and civil community. Zusammenfassung A reinvention of the traditional regimental history examining the role of a famous Kentish regiment, the Buffs, in the Great War. The book examines the backgrounds and attitudes of officers, men, and their families to the war and looks at its impact on the military and civil community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Officers and Men 2: Shock, 1914 3: Adjusting to the Western Front: January 1915 - Spring 1916 4: Raiding, 1915-1918: learning on the job or unnecessary attrition? 5: Learning: the Buffs on the Somme 6: Applying: 1917 7: Defending: January - April 1918 8: Winning: July - November 1918 9: Remembering Conclusion Appendices

Product details

• Authors: Mark Connelly, Mark (Reader in Modern British History & Connelly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199278602
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927860-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kent, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I