The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-18.

Professor Timothy Travers, University of Calgary [Canada], took his Ph.D. in history at Yale University [United States]. His research interests include: 19th and 20th century warfare; modern tactical and strategic thought; film and history; and popular culture.

Travers's other publications include: "Samuel Smiles and the Victorian work ethic" (1987); "How the war was won: command and technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917-1918" (1992); "Gallipoli 1915" (2001).

Annotated typescript.

The typescript was deposited at Churchill Archives Centre by Professor Travers in April 1986.

The typescript is on loan.

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Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-18., TRAV

Published by Allen and Unwin (1987) and Unwin Hyman (1990).

A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London, and on the Janus website at http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.

This collection (fonds) level description was prepared by Katharine Thomson of Churchill Archives Centre in October 2003, using information from Calgary University's history faculty and from the British Library.