Smith Dorrien and the Mons Campaign

Based on a fresh operational analysis, with reference to war diaries from GHQ to battalion level, Horace Smith Dorrien's coolness and rapidity of thought, under the competent direction of Sir John French, is revealed as the key to the remarkable survival of II Corps at both Mons and Le Cateau. There is no reliance on the Official History or retrospective 'memoirs' in this talk.

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