Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War (Cassel Military)

by Gordon Corrigan

  Willcocks, General Sir James ref1

  William of Prussia, Crown Prince ref1

  Wilson, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Wilson, President Woodrow ref1(n5), ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  declaration of war ref1

  ‘Fourteen Points’ speech ref1

  and the Zimmermann telegram ref1

  Wing, Major-General Frederick Drummond ref1

  wire obstacles ref1, ref2

  Wise, Lieutenant Colonel ref1

  women ref1

  Yarmouth ref1

  Ypres, First Battle of ref1

  Ypres, Second Battle of, 1915 ref1, ref2, ref3(map), ref4

  Ypres, Third Battle of, 1917 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10(map), ref11

  Ypres salient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Yugoslavia ref1

  Zeebrugge ref1

  Zeppelins ref1, ref2

  Zimmermann, Arthur ref1, ref2

  Zimmermann telegram, the ref1

  Zonnebeke ref1, ref2

  Gordon Corrigan was educated at the Royal School Armagh and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was a regular officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before retiring from the Army in 1998. His last appointment was command of the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire, training recruits and running courses for the Brigade of Gurkhas, for which he was awarded the MBE. He is now a freelance military historian. He is a visiting lecturer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, writes, conducts battlefield tours and has appeared on and presented television documentaries dealing with various aspects of military history. His published works include a history of the Indian Corps on the Western Front during the Great War and a military biography of the Duke of Wellington. He describes his hobbies as Gurkhas, horses, the Times crossword, pricking the pompous and long lunches. He has two grownup children and lives with his wife, who was a regular officer of the Women’s Royal Army Corps and Adjutant General’s Corps, in a windmill in Kent.

  BY GORDON CORRIGAN

  Blood, Sweat and Arrogance

  Men on Horseback

  Cavalry!

  Mud, Blood and Poppycock

  Sepoys in the Trenches

  Wellington – A Military Life

  Loos 1915, The Unwanted Battle

  The Second World War – A Military History

  To Shelagh Lea: friend, artist and adviser, who did not live to

  see the results of her invaluable contribution to this book

  A Cassell Military ebook

  First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Cassell

  Ebook first published in 2012 by Cassell

  © Gordon Corrigan 2003

  Cartography by Peter Harper

  The right of Gordon Corrigan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book

  is available from the British Library.

  ISBN 978-1-7802-2554-8

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