ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed
Singapore 1942: Britain's Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.
In the First World War many battles on the Western Front had lasted weeks or months. All too often they degenerated into glacial and indecisive campaigns of attrition. By the 1930s, however, military science had recreated the possibility of a decisive battle. An unprecedented rate...
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