Contemptible [Illustrated Edition]

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos “An ‘Old Contemptible’ recounts the campaign of 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War, units of the British regular army-the B. E. F-were despatched to the continent to assist the French in an attempt to stem the tide of the advancing Imperial German Army as it marched inexorably towards Paris. The enemy viewed the ‘Tommies’ as ‘that contemptible little army.’ In that way peculiar to the British