BURNING TANKS AND AN EMPTY DESERT: Based on the unpublished journal of Major John Sylvanus MacGill, MB, ChB, MD, Royal Army Medical Corps : AuthorHouse : 9781504950299 : 1504950291 : 23 Oct 2015 : THE SUCCESSES AND SACRIFICES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1914 This work is a study of military history 'from the top down' and also 'from the bottom up'. It describes a brigade - 4,000 men - of the old British Regular army that fought in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914. This army was of the highest quality but was very small. The book describes the strategy and tactics of the fighting, in which the British played a major role. But the work also describes the fighting from the point of view of junior officers and men in the ranks, 'from the bottom up'. JOHNNY. THE LEGEND AND TRAGEDY OF GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON Hamilton was a heroic leader of men. He had an extremely successful career until his last and biggest campaign, the a