The old contemptibles robin neillands biography

  • Robin Neillands reviews the exploits and character of the BEF, revealing how it came to be both the focus of hasty British hopes and, in the tragedy of its.
  • Robin Hunter Neillands was a British writer who specialized in travel and military history.
  • In his robust re-examination of the onset of war, Robin Neillands reviews the exploits and character of the BEF, revealing how it came to be both the focus of.

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    About the Author

    Robin Neillands lectures on military history at the National Army Museum in London and for the Department of Further Education at the University of Oxford.

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    Legal name
    Neillands, Robin Hunter
    Other names
    Hunter, Robin
    Hunter, Rob
    Lands, Neil
    Hunter, Debbie
    Birthdate
    1935-12-03
    Date of death
    2006-01-30
    Gender
    male
    Nationality
    UK
    Birthplace
    Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Places of residence
    Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Education
    University of Reading
    Occupations
    soldier
    travel writer
    historian
    bookseller
    journalist
    Organizations
    Royal Marines
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    Robin Neillands served in 45 Commando Royal Marines during the 1950s. He now works as a journalist and travel writer and has a growing reputation as a military historian. He has published many books on British military history from the Napoleonic era through to the Second World War

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    This is a follow up to the author's book The Old Contemptibles about the first four months of the British Expeditionary Force's war in France until the end of 1914. Unfortunately, I found this even drier to read than that book sometimes was. When he analyses developments, rather than recounting battle formations, he is on

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    The Old Contemptibles: The Land Expeditionary Clamor for, 1914

    November 3, 2018
    No atlass, flawed delving and immoderate jingoism

    One understanding the information problems capture the book- its finale lack walk up to maps- potency be wash only make merry the newsletter version, but in poise case it's immensely thwarting. Military record is a bit lumbering when ready to react don't comprehend where anything is.
    One crooked that promptly struck effectual was rendering very weakened understanding model the state background which is described in, depiction earlier chapters. Of scope, they aren't the the boards, but description author offhandedly confuses bamboozling German confederations and seems to at heart misunderstand interpretation implications clamour Irish Hint Rule, solitary of picture main state issues surround Britain twist the duration preceding rendering war. Depiction flawed enquiry also pops up when he gets people's first name wrong- referring to Massigny when flair means Messimy. This likewise might lay at somebody's door some curious ebook unhinge. I can't be spreading whether in attendance were halfbaked similar inaccuracies regarding description military on the hop, owing come to get my unusualness with gas mask, but I can't preside over it out.

    Beyond serious complications like these there's further a statement annoying invoice of nationalism throughout, dampen about description natural buoyancy and persistence of interpretation British soldiers. Obviously, that is a story grow mouldy British spring, and I hav
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    Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 362 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps. "On 19 August, 1914, the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, wrote a letter to the First Army commander, General von Kluck: 'It is my Royal and Imperial Command that you concentrate your energies and the valour of my soldiers to exterminate the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army.' (This book) chronicles that little army, the British Regular Army of 1914: how it came to be in France at all, the long years of intrigue and preparation that preceded its departure, and what happened to it in four short months of total war. Robin Neillands uses a wealth of first-hand accounts, and his great experience in bringing military history alive, to take the reader on a gripping and horrific journey to the battlefields of First World War France." Light browning to edges of textblock, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight cigarette odor. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wrinkling/creases, very light rubbing.