![]() Single-volume popular histories of military operations and naval operations written by civilian writers were to be produced for the general public but Sir John Fortescue was dismissed for slow work on the military volume and his draft was not published. ![]() The History of the Great War Military Operations volumes were originally intended as a technical history for military staff. ![]() The first "army" publication, Military Operations: France and Belgium 1914 Part I and a separate map case were published in 1922 and the final volume, The Occupation of Constantinople were published in 2010. ![]() Work had begun on the series in 1915 and in 1920, the first volumes of Naval Operations and Seaborne Trade, were published. Edmonds wrote many of the army volumes and influenced the choice of historians for the navy, air force, medical and veterinary volumes. It was produced by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1915 to 1949 after 1919 Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds was Director. The History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence (abbreviated to History of the Great War or British Official History) is a series of 109 volumes, concerning the war effort of the British state during the First World War. ![]()
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