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Reporting the First World War - Charles Repington, the Times and the Great War

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Informationen zum Autor A. J. A. Morris is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ulster. He has been a visiting professor in the United States, Canada and South Africa and was a Nuffield Research Fellow. His publications include Parliamentary Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (1967), Radicalism against War 1906-14: The Advocacy of Peace and Retrenchment (1972), Edwardian Radicalism (1974), C. P. Trevelyan: Portrait of a Radical (1976), The Scaremongers, 1896-1914: The Advocacy of War and Rearmament (1984) and The Letters of Lt Col. Charles Repington CMG: Military Correspondent of The Times (selected, edited and introduced, 1999). He has also contributed essays, articles and review essays to various volumes and academic journals, and has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and Political Quarterly. He was associate editor and research associate for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for ten years, contributing forty entries, including Repington's entry. Klappentext Major study of the influential military correspondent, Charles Repington, and his daily column in The Times during the Great War. Zusammenfassung The first major study of Charles Repington! Britain's most influential military correspondent of the early twentieth century. His daily column in The Times! 'The War Day by Day'! during the Great War was read by opinion-shapers and decision-makers worldwide who sought to understand better the momentous events happening around them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Years of Preparation, 1903-1914: 1. A new profession; 2. Kitchener's champion; 3. Esher's War Office reforms; 4. Arnold Forster lays the foundation for the General Staff; 5. Anglo-French military conversations; 6. Finding suitable generals; 7. Invasion; 8. Repington helps Haldane; 9. Conscription; 10. Northcliffe and The Times, Repington and the Army Review; 11. The Curragh incident; 12. Are the army and navy prepared for war?; Part II. The War Years, 1914-1918: 13. The 1915 shells scandal; 14. How do we secure the necessary troops?; 15. Changing the Old Guard; 16. The Somme; 17. Repington leaves The Times; 18. At odds with DORA; 19. Repington discredited; 20. A consummation devoutly to be wished; Part III. After the War, 1918-1925: 21. Peace poses its own problems, 1918-1920; 22. Last post, 1920-1925; 23. A fractured reputation; Biographical notes; Source notes; Select bibliography; Index....

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Authors A. J. A. Morris, A. J. Anthony Morris
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2015
 
EAN 9781107105492
ISBN 978-1-107-10549-2
No. of pages 408
Series Cambridge Military Histories
Cambridge Military Histories
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism

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