Introduction
1: Officers and Men
2: Shock, 1914
3: Adjusting to the Western Front: January 1915 - Spring 1916
4: Raiding, 1915-1918: learning on the job or unnecessary
attrition?
5: Learning: the Buffs on the Somme
6: Applying: 1917
7: Defending: January - April 1918
8: Winning: July - November 1918
9: Remembering
Conclusion
Appendices
An important work Bob Wyatt, Stand To! - The Journal of the Western Front Association ...worth space on any specialist's or enthusiast's bookshelf Mike Booker, Journal of Kent History This book fully revises standard regimental history by establishing the framework and background to the regiment's role in the First World War... Using previously uncovered material, this book adds a significant new chapter to the understanding of the British army on the Western Front, and the way its home community in East Kent reacted to the experience. It reveals the way in which the regiment adjusted to the shock of modern warfare, and the bloody learning curve the Buffs ascended. Kent Messenger
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