Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918 Moore-Bick Christopher
Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918 Moore-Bick Christopher The British Army expanded significantly during the First World War, creating a huge demand…
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Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-1918 Moore-Bick Christopher
The British Army expanded significantly during the First World War, creating a huge demand for new officers to lead the infantry through the horrors and privations of trench warfare. This book examines the lives and careers of these junior infantry officers, focusing especially on the transition from civilian to soldier. Thousands of civilians accepted commissions with little or no previous military experience, and success on the Western Front depended to a large extent on their ability to learn new skills and responsibilities quickly.
Products of Edwardian society, they reflected prevailing military opinions about the importance of entrusting command to 'gentlemen'. It does so by looking particularly at the young men who volunteered in the early stages of the war having only recently left either public school or university. Once in the army, they continued to draw on traditional ideas,