Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Never Over by Christmas 14
6. The Blockade in 1917 29
7. The Imperial Munitions Board and Merchant Shipbuilding in Canada 51
8. A Question of Command 78
9. The Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1917 99
10. “The Willing Horse Is Being Worked to Death” 114
11. The Africanization of British Imperial Forces in the East African Campaign 139
12. Vimy’s Consequence 160
13. The British Media and the Image of the Empire in 1917 188
14. A Few Concluding Remarks 214
15. Selected Bibliography 219
16. Contributors 223
17. Index 226