The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Command The "Lions Led By Donkeys" Theory
The Donkeys
by Alan Clark
ISBN
Purchase Price
£12.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
October 23, 2015
Publisher
Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Limited (1961, London)
Notes
This book just has to be in the Collection, however discredited it now is. Clark was the progenitor of the "Lions Led By Donkeys" view of particularly the Western Front. In fact, the book really starts, after a few short chapters of lead-in, with Neuve-Chapelle and ends with the departure of French. Thus any theory of the system of command in the B.E.F. is very limited, and merely addresses the first part of a long learning curve, drawing what are now generally regarded as the wrong conclusions. But for all that, it is worth the read!
Purchase Price
£12.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
October 23, 2015
Publisher
Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Limited (1961, London)
Notes
This book just has to be in the Collection, however discredited it now is. Clark was the progenitor of the "Lions Led By Donkeys" view of particularly the Western Front. In fact, the book really starts, after a few short chapters of lead-in, with Neuve-Chapelle and ends with the departure of French. Thus any theory of the system of command in the B.E.F. is very limited, and merely addresses the first part of a long learning curve, drawing what are now generally regarded as the wrong conclusions. But for all that, it is worth the read!