History of the Great War

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History of the Great War , dt. History of the Great War, is the title of a 28-volume historical work on the military operations of the British Army in the First World War .

The full title is History of the Great War Based on Official Documents , but most of the time it is simply referred to as British Official History for short .

The work was prepared by the historical department of the Committee of Imperial Defense (CID: Committee for Imperial Defense) under the direction of the historian Brigadier-General Sir James Edward Edmonds . The first edition appeared in 1932 and the last volume in 1949. No particular order was followed in the edition, so that the first volume, Military Operations: France and Belgium, appeared in 1914 eight years after the second.

The History of the Great War was written as a historical textbook for military personnel, not for the general public. The British historian John Keegan , a critic of dry, brittle prose, said: "the compilers ... have achieved the remarkable feat of writing an exhaustive account of one of the world's greatest tragedies without the display of any emotion at all. " The authors have succeeded in presenting the remarkable masterpiece of an exhaustive reckoning with one of the greatest tragedies in the world, without the slightest sign of inner involvement. ")

Volumes

  • Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1914
    • Volume I: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August - October 1914 , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds , 1933, Archives
    • Volume II: Antwerp, La Bassé, Armentières, Messines and Ypres, October - November 1914 , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1925
  • Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1915
    • Volume I: Winter 1914–1915: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and Captain GC Wynne, 1927
    • Volume II: Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1928
  • Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1916
    • Volume I: Sir Douglas Haig's Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1932
    • Volume II: 2nd July 1916 to the end of the Battles of the Somme , Captain Wilfrid Miles, 1938
  • Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1917
    • Volume I: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras , Captain Cyril Falls , 1940
    • Volume II: Messines and third Ypres (Passchendaele) , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1948
    • Volume III: The Battle of Cambrai , Captain Wilfrid Miles, 1948
  • Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1918
    • Volume I: The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1935
    • Volume II: March-April: Continuation of the German Offensives , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1937
    • Volume III: May-July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1939
    • Volume IV: 8th August-26th September: The Franco-British Offensive , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, 1947
    • Volume V: September 26th-November 11th: The Advance to Victory , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and Lieutenant-Colonel R. Maxwell-Hyslop, 1947
  • Military Operations: Gallipoli
    • Volume I , Brigadier-General CF Aspinall-Oglander , 1929
    • Volume II , Brigadier-General CF Aspinall-Oglander, 1932
  • Military Operations: Italy, 1915-1919 , Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and HR Davies, 1949
  • Military Operations: East Africa, 1914-1916
    • Volume I , Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Nordern, 1941
    • Volume II , unpublished
  • Military Operations: Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914–1916 , Brigadier-General FJ Moberly, 1931
  • Military Operations: Macedonia
    • Volume I: From the Outbreak of War to the Spring of 1917 , Captain Cyril Falls, 1933
    • Volume II: From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War , Captain Cyril Falls, 1935
  • Military Operations: Egypt and Palestine
    • Volume I , Captain Cyril Falls, 1928
    • Volume II , Captain Cyril Falls
  • Military Operations: Mesopotamia
    • Volume I: Outbreak of Hostilities, Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia , Brigadier-General FJ Moberly, 1923
    • Volume II: April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara , Brigadier-General FJ Moberly, 1924
    • Volume III: April 1917: The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad , Brigadier-General FJ Moberly, 1926
    • Volume IV: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia to the Armistice , Brigadier-General FJ Moberly, 1927

literature

  • Andrew Green: Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915-1948 , Frank Cass, London 2003, ISBN 0-7146-5495-7 .