Fire and movement: the British expeditionary force and the campaign of 1914
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| adam_text | in the summer of 1914, it didn’t send
an army but the British Expeditionary
Force—a volunteer force of fewer than
120,000 men. The BEF was dwarfed
by the massive armies lined up against
each other on the Western Front. Kaiser
Wilhelm II and his generals fully expected
the German forces to annihilate it. In the
opening months of the Great War, the
British fought a series of battles at Mons,
Le Gateau, the Aisne, and, perhaps most
famously and calamitously, at the First
Battle of Ypres. In the process, the BEF —
the “Old Contemptibles” as they proudly
styled themselves—became the stuff of
popular legend as a British David marching
into battle against a German Goliath.
And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this
gripping and revisionary look at the first
months of the Great War, for too long the
British part in the 1914 campaign has been
veiled in lay ers of self-congratulatory myth:
a tale of unprepared Britain, reliant on the
superior class of her regular soldiers to
bolster the rabble of the unreliable French
Army and defeat the teeming hordes of
German troops. Hart suggests that the
rea 1 it v of those earlv weeks and months
*
is much more complex and, ultimiately, a
tar more powerful story than the standard
triumphalist British narrative.
Fire and ATovement places the British
role into a proper historical context- The
British regulars were indeed skillful
soldiers, but, as Hart reveals, they also
lacked practice in many of the essential
disciplines of modern warfare, and the
inexperience of some of their officers led
to costly mistakes. Hart provides a more
balanced portrait of the German Army—
not the caricature of a mass of automatons,
but a well-trained and superlatively
equipped force that outfought the BEF in
the early battles. This reassessment also
allows for a fuller appreciation of the
crucial role of the French Army, without
whom the key victory at the Battle of the
Marne never would have been won.
Ultimately Fire and reveals
the story of the 1914 campaign to be an
epic drama, sometimes lost in the larger
conflict of which it was the opening act,
and one that needs no embellishment.
Employing the voices and recollections
of the soldiers who fought the battles.
Hart strips away the myths to offer a
clear-eyed account of the earliest days of
the Great War.
is Oral Historian of the Imperial War
Museum in London. He is the author of
manv works of military history, including
* * V ^—
C hillipali and The Greui War: A
If isfnrv of the Iir t War hi
CONTENTS
List of Maps vii
Preface ix
1 Small Beginnings 1
2 Ready for War? 13
3 Lights Out, 4 August 1914 42
4 Road to Mons 59
5 Battle of Mons 84
6 Battle of Le Cateau 124
7 Great Retreat 148
8 Battle of the Marne 180
9 Battle of the Aisne 198
10 Race to the Sea 246
11 Battle of Ypres: Contact 270
12 Battle of Ypres: Bedlam 296
13 Life in the Trenches 337
14 Stagnation 379
15 Christmas Truce 405
16 Epilogue 426
Acknowledgements 433
Notes 435
Index 465
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