1. Ian F. W. Beckett (2002) ‘Selection by Disparagement: Lord Esher, the General Staff and the Politics of Command, 1904–14’, in David French and Brian Holden Reid, eds The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation, 1890–1939 (London: Frank Cass).
2. Ian F. W. Beckett (1981) ‘H. O. Arnold-Forster and the Volunteers’, in Ian F. W. Beckett and John Gooch, eds Politicians and Defence: Studies in the Formulation of British Defence Policy, 1846–1970 (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
3. Ian F. W. Beckett (2000) ‘King George V and his Generals’, in Matthew Hughes and Matthew Seligmann, eds Leadership in Conflict, 1914–18 (Barnsley: Leo Cooper).
4. Ian F. W. Beckett, ed (1986) The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914 (London: Bodley Head for Army Records Society).
5. Ian F. W. Beckett (2014) The Great War (Abingdon: Routledge).