MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK: Britain and the First World War

Corrigan, Gordon

ISBN 10: 0304359556 / ISBN 13: 9780304359554

Published by Cassell, London, 2003

About this Item

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Vividly written, and with the driest humour, this irreverent look at how Britain really won World War I demolishes myth upon myth. What becomes brilliantly (and amusingly) clear is just how many "established facts" have absolutely no basis in reality; instead they're fabrications created in the 1960s by young historians on the make. The soldiers from 1914-18 would simply not recognize their popular depiction on TV and in novels: instead, we see here how much the British embraced technology and developed the weapons and tactics that broke through enemy trenches. Ref EEE 5.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MUD, BLOOD AND POPPYCOCK: Britain and the First World War
• Publisher: Cassell, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304359556
• ISBN 13: 9780304359554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Vividly written, and with the driest humor, this irreverent look at how Britain really won World War I demolishes myth upon myth. What becomes brilliantly (and amusingly) clear is just how many "established facts" have absolutely no basis in reality; instead they're fabrications created in the 1960s by young historians on the make. The soldiers from 1914-18 would simply not recognize their popular depiction on TV and in novels: instead, we see here how much the British embraced technology and developed the weapons and tactics that broke through enemy trenches.

About the Author

The author was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1962 and retired from the Brigade of Gurkhas in 1998. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Gordon Corrigan presented C5's WEAPONS OF WAR series on TV.