110079: Your country needs you!

Middlebrook, Martin, Your Country Needs You! : from six to sixty-five divisions (London: Leo Cooper Ltd, 1999 (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2007 imprint)).
ISBN 9780850527094

Your Country Needs You takes the politics of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener’s appointment as War Minister as his starting point, and describes the events and personalities key to British commitment in the First World War. The book covers the early mobilisation, dispatch of the British Expedition Force, withdrawal of overseas garrisons and the response from the Territorial Army, as well as Kitchener’s appeal to the civilian population which produced ‘The New Army’.

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