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Yale University Press USA 1991. Hard cover dust wrapper 306p b&w photos. A little wear on edges, corners bumped else very good-very good+. Between the Boer War and the First World War British Defence Policy was tranformed. Within a decade it ceased to revolve around the 'great game' with Russia in central Asia and came increasingly to turn on Anglo-German naval rivalry in the North Sea. The colonial army of the Victorian era was overhauled, and a British Expeditionary Force was created for war in Europe. The Territorial Army was formed to protect the British Isles from invasion and the Royal Navy was radically modernised and equipped wiht Dreadnoughts. This focuses on the role of the Conservative party in the dramatic changes in British defence policy during the early years of the twentieth cebtury.