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The ''History of the Great War'' is a series of 109 volumes, covering the war effort of the British state during the First World War. The full title is the ''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence'' but the series is usually referred to as the ''British Official History''. It was produced by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence under the control of the Official Historian Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds for the army volumes and other historians for the navy, air force, medical and veterinary volumes. Work began on the series in 1915 and in 1920, the first volumes of ''Naval Operations'' and ''Seaborne Trade'' were published. The first "army" publication, ''Military Operations: France and Belgium 1914'' volume I and a separate map volume were published in 1922 and the final volume, ''The Occupation of Constantinople'' was published in 2010. In the 1987 introduction to ''Operations in Persia 1914–1919'', G. M. Bayliss wrote that the guides issued by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) were incomplete. "Sectional List number 60" of 1976 omitted the ''Gallipoli'' volumes but contained ''The Blockade of the Central Empires'' (1937), which had been retained "for official use only" until 1961. The twelve volume ''History of the Ministry of Munitions'' and neither the ''Occupation of the Rhineland'' (1929) or ''Operations in Persia 1914–1919'' (1929) were listed. The ''History of the Great War'' Military Operations volumes, were written as a technical history for military staff, rather than as a popular history for consumption by the general public. John Keegan, criticised the prose for being dry and featureless, "the compilers... have achieved the remarkable feat of writing an exhaustive account of one of the world's greatest tragedies without the display of any emotion at all.". In 1996, Paddy Griffith called it an encyclopaedic work, transparently individualistic in tone, lucidly organised, wide in scope and by far the best book on the Western Front. == The war on land == * History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence * ''The Occupation of Constantinople 1918–1923'' (draft provisional history 1944), Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds, 2010 * ''Military Operations: East Africa'' * * ''Volume I: 1914–1916'', Lieutenant-Colonel C. Hordern, 1941 * * ''Volume II'', unpublished (draft chapters in the Public Record Office) * ''Military Operations: Egypt and Palestine'' * * ''Volume I: From the Outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917'', accompanying map case, G. Macmunn, Captain C. Falls, 1928 * * ''Volume II: From June 1917 to the end of the War'', accompanying map case, ''Part I'', G. Macmunn, Captain C. Falls, 1930, ''Part II'', G. Macmunn, Captain C. Falls, 1930 * ''Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1914'' * * ''Volume I: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August – October 1914'', accompanying map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1922 (2nd edition 1925, 3rd revised edition, 1934)〔(archive.org )〕 * * ''Volume II: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres, October – November 1914'', accompanying map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1925〔(archive.org )〕 * ''Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1915'' * * ''Volume I: Winter 1914–15: Battle of Neuve Chapelle: Battles of Ypres'', accompanying map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds and Captain G. C. Wynne, 1927 * * ''Volume II: Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos'', accompanying map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1928 * ''Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1916'' * * ''Volume I: Sir Douglas Haig's Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme'', accompanying appendices volume and map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1932 * * ''Volume II: 2 July 1916 to the end of the Battles of the Somme'', accompanying appendices and maps volume, Captain W. Miles, 1938 * ''Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1917'' * * ''Volume I: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras'', accompanying appendices volume, Captain C. Falls, 1940 * * ''Volume II: Messines and third Ypres (Passchendaele)'', Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1948 * * ''Volume III: The Battle of Cambrai'', Captain W. Miles, 1948 * ''Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1918'' * * ''Volume I: The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries'', accompanying appendices volume and map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1935 * * ''Volume II: March–April: Continuation of the German Offensives'', accompanying map case, Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1937 * * ''Volume III: May–July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive'', Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1939 * * ''Volume IV: 8 August – 26 September: The Franco-British Offensive'', Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds, 1947 * * ''Volume V: 26 September – 11 November: The Advance to Victory'', Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds and Lieutenant-Colonel R. Maxwell-Hyslop, 1947 * ''Military Operations: Gallipoli'' * * ''Volume I: Inception of the campaign to May 1915'', accompanying maps and appendices volume, Brigadier-General C. F. Aspinall-Oglander, 1929 * * ''Volume II: May 1915 to the evacuation'', accompanying maps and appendices volume, Brigadier-General C. F. Aspinall-Oglander, 1932 * ''Military Operations: Italy, 1915–1919'', Brigadier-General Sir J. E. Edmonds and H. R. Davies, 1949 * ''Military Operations: Macedonia'' * * ''Volume I: From the Outbreak of War to the Spring of 1917'', accompanying map case, Captain C. Falls, 1933 * * ''Volume II: From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War'', accompanying map case, Captain C. Falls, 1935 * ''Military Operations: Mesopotamia'', Compiled at the Request of the Government of India, under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence * * ''Volume I: Outbreak of Hostilities: Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia'', Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1923 * * ''Volume II: April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara'', Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1924 * * ''Volume III: April 1917: The Capture and Consolidation of Baghdad'', Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1926 * * ''Volume IV: The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917–18, North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918'', Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1927 * ''Operations in Persia 1914–1919'', (confidential, 1929) Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1987 * ''The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918–1929'', (confidential, 1944) Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds, 1987 * ''Military Operations: Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914–1916'' Compiled by Arrangement with the Colonial Office, under the Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1931 Related volumes * ''Order of Battle of Divisions'' * * ''Volume I: The Regular British Divisions'' Major A. F. Becke, 1935 * * ''Volume IIa: The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42–56)'', Major A. F. Becke, 1936 * * ''Volume IIb: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th) with the Home Service Divisions (71st–73rd) and 74th and 75th'', Major A. F. Becke, 1937 * * ''Volume IIIa: New Army Divisions (9–26)'', Major A. F. Becke, 1938 * * ''Volume IIIb: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division'', Major A. F. Becke, 1945 * * ''Volume IV: The Army Council, G.H.Q.s, Armies and Corps, 1914–1918'', Major A. F. Becke, 1945 * ''Principal Events, 1914–1918'', H. T. Skinner and H. FitzM. Stacke, 1922〔(archive.org )〕 * ''Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920'', War Office, 1922〔(archive.org )〕 * ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914–1918'', accompanying map case, Colonel A. M. Henniker, 1937 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Great War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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