Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option C1: The Experience of Warfare in Britain: Crimea, Boer and the First World War, 1854-1929 (Student Support Materials for History) - Softcover

Stewart, Geoffrey; Jenkins, Lucien; Bircher, Rob; Stark, Hilary

9780007457427: Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option C1: The Experience of Warfare in Britain: Crimea, Boer and the First World War, 1854-1929 (Student Support Materials for History)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007457421 ISBN 13: 9780007457427

Publisher: HarperCollins UK, 2012

Enable students to succeed in their exam with Experience of Warfare in Britain. This study aid contains the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 2 Option C1, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. Also included are graded essays with full comments from experienced examiners on how to secure a higher grade.

The Experience of Warfare in Britain: Crimea, Boer and the First World War, 1854–1929 covers all the content and skills your students will need for their Edexcel AS Unit 2 Option C1 examination, including:

� Chapter 1: THE IMPACT OF THE CRIMEAN WAR
Including – The events and impact of the war; reporting the war, including glorification and suffering; the role of women in the war; the short- and long-term impacts on the army, medicine and government

� Chapter 2: THE IMPACT OF THE SECOND BOER WAR
Including – Britain’s imperial role in the 1890s; an outline of the events of the war; reporting the war and propaganda; political divisions; support for the war; opposition to the war; national efficiency; liberal reforms; the impact of the war on attitudes to empire

� Chapter 3:THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Including – Outline of Britain’s involvement in the war; positional warfare vs. a war of movement; the importance of the Somme and Third Ypres, and victory in 1918; recruitment; discipline and morale; medical and surgical developments

� Chapter 4: THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE HOME FRONT
Including – Changing attitudes to the conflict; press and propaganda; organising the nation for total war; changes in work and working practices; the role of women; post-war Britain – society, economy and government

� Chapter 5: EXAM SKILLS

� Chapter 6: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

� Index

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.