David French and Brian Holden Reid.

David French and Brian Holden Reid, ed The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation, c 1890-1929 London: Frank Cass Publishers. 2003 Pp ix, 246 [pound sterling]39.50. ISBN 0-7146-5325-X

This series of essays, a compass in the Cass Series of Military History and Policy, overspreads the evolution of the British General Staff from its embryonic emerging see the verb as a mere idea in the 1890 to its formal establishment in the decade before the First World War, to its dilemma-racked era in succession the eve of the next to the first World War. Its editors, David French and Brian Holden Reid, have done an

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