Victory to Defeat av Richard Dannatt, Robert Lyman

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<p><b>A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.</b><br><br> The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different animal. The hard-won knowledge, experience and strategic vision that delivered victory after victory in the closing stages of the First World War had been lost. In the inter-war years there was plenty of talking, but very little focus on <i>who</i> Britain might have to fight, and <i>how</i>. <i>Victory to Defeat </i>clearly illustrates how the British Army wasn''t prepared to fight a first-class European Army in 1939 for the simple reason that as a country Britain hadn''t prepared itself to do so. The failure of the army''s leadership led directly to its abysmal performance in Norway and France in 1940. <br><br><i>Victory to Defeat </i>is a captivating history of the mismanagem