Robin Prior
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Prior |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Prior |
| SIGNATURE | PRIOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Defence Force Academy and the University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945
The End in Africa
This chapter explores the difficulty of settling on an area of operations with an ally, referencing the development of an Allied plan. It also notes the appointment of Dwight Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of the Torch landings. The North African landings took place on November 1942 after a logistical and organisational triumph which saw men delivered from the United States and various parts of Britain to three main landing areas simultaneou…
The Cambridge History of the First World War
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of…
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
'War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history ... Participation in war, whether actively in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians in the twentieth century. Today ... questions relating to defence do not usually seize the attention of the media, but the Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual…
The Heroic Image of the Warrior in the First World War
The heroic tradition of the warrior in the Western military tradition begins with Homer. In his epic on the Trojan War the centrepiece of battle is the personal conflicts between heroes of noble or semi-divine stature-Achilles, Paris, Menelaos. It goes without saying that Homer's epic is not an accurate representation of warfare even in the Ancient Greek Dark Age. Yet the myth of the warrior and the martial virtues as determinants in battle has e…
Conflict, technology, and the impact of industrialization: The Great War 1914–18
In major respects, World War I appeared markedly unlike even quite recent wars. What, by and large, caused the difference was not quality of command or changing morale. It was industrial mobilisation and technological advancement. The emergence of new weapons, and of new methods of producing them in volume and at speed, played a crucial role in changing the nature of war. Certainly, the peculiar qualities of the Great War of 1914–18 were not dete…
The First World War
Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The outcome was a war of attrition and immobile fronts, eventually to be unlocke…
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
Passchendaele: The Untold Story
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors ar…
Paul Fussell at War
Command on the Western Front
The First World War and British Military History
The Location of the Proletarian and Deferential Worker
three types : deferential, proletarian and privatized. He defines each type in terms of a distinctive occupational culture, community situation, reference group and life style. The deferential worker is employed in small scale or service industry, interacts with the boss on a face-to-face basis, and accepts as legitimate the distinctions of both the occupational and local status hierarchy . Socially he is relatively isolated from other workers, a…
The Location of the Proletarian and Deferential Worker
three types : deferential, proletarian and privatized. He defines each type in terms of a distinctive occupational culture, community situation, reference group and life style. The deferential worker is employed in small scale or service industry, interacts with the boss on a face-to-face basis, and accepts as legitimate the distinctions of both the occupational and local status hierarchy . Socially he is relatively isolated from other workers, a…
Paul Fussell at War
The Heroic Image of the Warrior in the First World War
The heroic tradition of the warrior in the Western military tradition begins with Homer. In his epic on the Trojan War the centrepiece of battle is the personal conflicts between heroes of noble or semi-divine stature-Achilles, Paris, Menelaos. It goes without saying that Homer's epic is not an accurate representation of warfare even in the Ancient Greek Dark Age. Yet the myth of the warrior and the martial virtues as determinants in battle has e…
The First World War
Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The outcome was a war of attrition and immobile fronts, eventually to be unlocke…
The Location of the Proletarian and Deferential Worker
three types : deferential, proletarian and privatized. He defines each type in terms of a distinctive occupational culture, community situation, reference group and life style. The deferential worker is employed in small scale or service industry, interacts with the boss on a face-to-face basis, and accepts as legitimate the distinctions of both the occupational and local status hierarchy . Socially he is relatively isolated from other workers, a…
Command on the Western Front
The First World War and British Military History
Paul Fussell at War
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
Passchendaele: The Untold Story
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gains made in four desperate months were won back by Germany in only three days the following March. The devastation at Passchendaele, the authors ar…
The First World War
Industrial and ironclad power reached its culmination in the war that engulfed Europe. As events would prove, however, the products of the industrial system of the 20th century, including the capacity of the system to transfer vast reserves of manpower from civilian to military employment at short notice, much more greatly favoured strategies of defence than offence. The outcome was a war of attrition and immobile fronts, eventually to be unlocke…
Conflict, technology, and the impact of industrialization: The Great War 1914–18
In major respects, World War I appeared markedly unlike even quite recent wars. What, by and large, caused the difference was not quality of command or changing morale. It was industrial mobilisation and technological advancement. The emergence of new weapons, and of new methods of producing them in volume and at speed, played a crucial role in changing the nature of war. Certainly, the peculiar qualities of the Great War of 1914–18 were not dete…
The Heroic Image of the Warrior in the First World War
The heroic tradition of the warrior in the Western military tradition begins with Homer. In his epic on the Trojan War the centrepiece of battle is the personal conflicts between heroes of noble or semi-divine stature-Achilles, Paris, Menelaos. It goes without saying that Homer's epic is not an accurate representation of warfare even in the Ancient Greek Dark Age. Yet the myth of the warrior and the martial virtues as determinants in battle has e…
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
'War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history ... Participation in war, whether actively in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians in the twentieth century. Today ... questions relating to defence do not usually seize the attention of the media, but the Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual…
The Cambridge History of the First World War
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of…
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945
The End in Africa
This chapter explores the difficulty of settling on an area of operations with an ally, referencing the development of an Allied plan. It also notes the appointment of Dwight Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of the Torch landings. The North African landings took place on November 1942 after a logistical and organisational triumph which saw men delivered from the United States and various parts of Britain to three main landing areas simultaneou…
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War
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