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Battle tactics of the Western Front: the British Army's art of attack, 1916-18

By Griffith , Paddy

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780300066630, 0300066635
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1141240 bytes)
Edition
Paperback ed
Pages
286\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front;Western Fr1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front;World WarMilitary campaigns;Strategy;Tactics;World War

Description

Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance.

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