The Vanished Army (1971) By Tim Carew
 
The story of The British Expeditionary Force of 1914 and the men who became - The Old Contemptibles.
 
The story of the British Expeditionary Force of 1914, the outdated, outnumbered and unprepared regular army trained to the old standards that had to learn modern warfare the hard way, discovering that cavalry units were no longer viable, that sappers were as important as infantry and that artillery was more important than the Household Brigade, they nevertheless proved their worth and held the front until Kitchener's New Army was available, reveling in the Kaiser's description of them as a 'contemptible little army'.
 
Soft Cover
253 pages
In Good Condition