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Polling conducted by YouGov in 2014 suggested that 58% of modern British adults believed the Central powers were primarily responsible for the outbreak of the First World War, 3% the Triple Entente (the major countries in each group were listed), 17% both sides and 3% said they didn't know. 52% believed generals had failed British soldiers, 17% ...
Beckett, Ian Frederick William (1985), A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War, Manchester University Press 1985, ISBN 0-7190-1737-8; Beckett, Ian Frederick William (2006), Home Front 1914–1918: How Britain Survived the Great War, The National Archives, ISBN 978-1-903365-81-6
Turner, John, ed. Britain and the First World War (1988). Williams, John. The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) Britain: pp 49–71, 111-33, 178-98 and 246-60. Wilson, Trevor. The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914–1918 (1989) excerpt and text search 864pp; covers both the homefront and the battlefields
21 December – World War I: First bombing raid on Britain when a German floatplane drops bombs in Dover Harbour. [27] 24 December – World War I: British and German soldiers begin an unofficial Christmas truce. Britain's mainland is bombed for the first time when a German floatplane drops a bomb on Dover. [6]
The British Army during the First World War was the largest military force that Britain had put into the field up to that point. [241] On the Western Front, the British Expeditionary Force ended the war as the strongest fighting force, more experienced than the United States Army and its morale was in better shape than the French Army. [241] [c]
The scheme was undertaken during November–December 1915 and obtained 318,553 medically fit single men. [31] However, 38% of single men and 54% of married men had resisted the orchestrated pressure to enlist in the war, so the British Government, determined to ensure a supply of replacements for mounting casualties overseas, instead passed The ...
BY TESS LITTLE (Reuters) - Lights across Britain switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign ...
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719078347. Payani, Panikos (2014). Enemy in our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781847881847. Pearsall, Mark (24 March 2017).