First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chapter 1 'The Bolt from the Blue'; Chapter 2 Attitudes to War in Late Victorian and Edwardian England; Chapter 3 Great Britain and the Defence of Canada, 1896-1914; Chapter 4 Sir George Clarke's Career at the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1904-1907; Chapter 5 Mr Haldane's Army:Military Organization and Foreign Policy in England, 1906-7; Chapter 6 The War Office and the Curragh Incident; Chapter 7 Soldiers, Strategy and War Aims in Britain, 1914-1918; Chapter 8 The Maurice Case;

John Gooch Lecturer in History University of Lancaster