Title Fire Power : the British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945

Published Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages) Contents Cover; Series; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Book I The Fire-Tactics of the Old Army: 1904-1914; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Prologue; 1 The Artillery as an Accessory; 2 The Tactics of Separate Tables; 3 The Still and Mental Parts; Book II One Great and Continuous Engagement: 1914-1918; 4 Prologue and Retrospect; 5 Many a Doubtful Battle; 6 Ubique; 7 Queen of the Battlefield?; 8 A Technical Knock Out; Book III The Years Between the Wars: 1919-1939; 9 The Swingletree Factor; 10 Policies, Theories and Weapons; 11 A Fairly New Model Army Book IV The Second Round: 1939-194512 Blitzkrieg; 13 The Sand Model; 14 A Cybernetic Solution -- I: The Artillery on the Ground; 15 A Cybernetic Solution -- II: The Artillery of the Air; Interlude. Fire-plan statistics: 1940-45; 16 Ends and Means; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century. The authors, both former artillery officers who saw action in Word War Two, describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual war-winning role that artillery played, to the culmination of professional military deployment in the Second World War Notes Print version record Subject Great Britain. Army -- Artillery Great Britain. Army -- History -- 20th century Great Britain. Army -- Weapons systems -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Great Britain. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533555 Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Artillery operations, British World War, 1939-1945 -- Artillery operations, British Strategy -- History -- 20th century Tactics -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Military -- Weapons. Armed Forces -- Artillery. Armed Forces -- Weapons systems. Strategy. Tactics. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Graham, Dominick ISBN 9781783834914 1783834919

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