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Author Lambert, Andrew D., 1956- author.

Title The British way of war : Julian Corbett and the battle for a national strategy / Andrew Lambert
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

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Contents Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Victorian Empire -- CHAPTER 2 Making Waves -- CHAPTER 3 Finding an Audience -- CHAPTER 4 Politics and Policy -- CHAPTER 5 England in the Mediterranean -- CHAPTER 6 The Naval War Course -- CHAPTER 7 Strategy, Culture and History -- CHAPTER 8 Shaping the 'British Way' -- CHAPTER 9 'Radiant with the Genius of a Maritime State' -- CHAPTER 10 Policy, Strategy and International Law -- CHAPTER 11 Imperial Pageantry -- CHAPTER 12 Tactics, Signals and Trafalgar
CHAPTER 13 Maritime Strategy in a Total War -- CHAPTER 14 Teaching National Strategy -- CHAPTER 15 'Doctrine -- The Soul of Warfare' -- CHAPTER 16 The 'British Way' at War -- CHAPTER 17 Propaganda, Peace and the Liberal Empire -- CHAPTER 18 Naval Operations -- CHAPTER 19 Explaining the Unpalatable Truth -- CHAPTER 20 Carrying On -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX
Summary How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914--but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2021)
Subject Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922.
SUBJECT Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922 fast
Subject Naval historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
Naval strategy -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, British
Naval historians
Naval strategy
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300262421
0300262426