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Wilson, Trevor Gordon was born on December 24, 1928 in Auckland, New Zealand. Son of Andrew Gordon and Winifred Annie (Banyard) Wilson. arrived in Australia, 1960.
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This is a study of World War I from the standpoint of British involvement. It explores the reasons for Britain's entry into the war, the nature and course of British participation and the far-reaching repercussions of the war on British society.
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No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than "Passchendaele". By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors argue, was neither inevitable not inescapable; nor perhaps was it necessary at all. Using a substantial archive of official and private records, Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior provide a full account of the campaign. The book examines the political dimension at a level which has hitherto been absent from accounts of "Third Ypres". It establishes what did occur, the options for alternative action, and the fundamental responsibility for the carnage. Prior and Wilson consider the shifting ambitions and stratagems of the high command, examine the logistics of war, and assess what the available manpower, weaponry, technology and intelligence could realistically have hoped to achieve. And they explore the experience of the men on the ground in the light - whether they knew it or not - of what was never going to be accomplished.
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Wilson, Trevor Gordon was born on December 24, 1928 in Auckland, New Zealand. Son of Andrew Gordon and Winifred Annie (Banyard) Wilson. arrived in Australia, 1960.
Master of Arts, University Auckland, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oxford, 1959.
Assistant lecturer history Auckland University, Canterbury University, New Zealand, 1952-1955. Research assistant government Manchester University, England, 1957-1959. Lecturer, professor history Adelaide University, Australia, since 1960.
Commonwealth fellow St. John's College, Cambridge, England, 1972. Visiting professor Marshall University, Würzburg. Virginia, 1989.
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( No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions ...)
( No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions ...)
(This is a history of World War I, seen through the eyes o...)
(This is a history of World War I, seen through the eyes o...)
(This is a study of World War I from the standpoint of Bri...)
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Fellow Royal History Society, Australian Academy Humanities. Member History de la Grand Guerre (committee), Staff Club University Adelaide.
Married (Mary) Jane Verney, September 7, 1959. Children: Jennifer Lynn, Sara Jane.