British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War

Taylor & Francis

'This is an ambitious and rich study by Peter E. Hodgkinson, whose prosopographical analysis of the British army\u2019s commanding officers (COs) addresses four central questions: Who were these men? How competent were they at their posts? What qualities made them good officers? And did the British army create a meritocracy by the end of the war? ...This is a remarkable piece of scholarship, a fine example of the Birmingham school of military history.' - Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo, H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online\n > Peter Hodgkinson is a Clinical Psychologist with a life-long interest in the First World War. He was one of the first graduates of the MA in British First World War Studies in 2006, and subsequently studied for a PhD in the Department of War Studies. He is the author a range of psychology articles and the book \u2019Coping with Catastrophe\u2019 second edition (Routledge, 1998); and of \u2019Clearing the Dead\u2019, in the online journa.