Bond, B - The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914

Eyre Methuen, London, 1972. 350 pages, index, chapter notes, illustrations. The years between 1854 and 1914 saw the transformation of the British Army from an essentially Wellingtonian force that had fought in the Crimea to the highly professional British Expeditionary Force of WW1. The Staff College founded at Camberley in 1858 played a major role in that modernising process. Brown cloth boards, sl sunned spine on dj. G+.