Reporting the First World War :Charles Repington, The Times and the Great War ( Cambridge Military Histories )

Publication subTitle :Charles Repington, The Times and the Great War

Publication series :Cambridge Military Histories

Author: A. J. A. Morris  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9781316455616

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107105492

Subject: E19 military history

Keyword: 军事史

Language: ENG

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Reporting the First World War

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Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From 1914 to 1918, Repington's commentary in The Times, 'The War Day by Day', was read and discussed by opinion-shapers and decision-makers worldwide who sought to better understand the momentous events happening around them, and his subsequently published diaries offered a compelling portrait of England's governing class at war. This is the first major study of Repington's life and career from the Boer War to the end of the Great War. A. J. A. Morris presents unique insights into the conduct of the First World War and into leading figures in the British high command: French, Haig, Robertson, Wilson. The book offers modern readers a rewardingly fresh understanding of the conflict, and will appeal to scholars of the First World War and British political and military history of the period.

Chapter

2 Kitchener’s champion

3 Esher’s War Office reforms

4 Arnold Forster lays the foundation for the General Staff

5 Anglo-French military conversations

6 Finding suitable generals

7 Invasion

8 Repington helps Haldane

9 Conscription

10 Northcliffe and The Times, Repington and the Army Review

11 The Curragh incident

12 Are the army and navy prepared for war?

Part II The war years, 1914–1918

13 The 1915 shells scandal

14 How do we secure the necessary troops?

15 Changing the old guard

16 The Somme

17 Repington leaves The Times

18 At odds with DORA

19 Repington discredited

20 A consummation devoutly to be wished

Part III After the war, 1918–1925

21 Peace poses its own problems, 1918–1920

22 Last post, 1920–1925

23 A fractured reputation

Biographical notes

Notes

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Index

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