Dr Stephen Bull

World War I Trench Warfare (2): 1916 18

Illustrator: Hook, Adam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The years from 1914 to 1918 saw a whole series of complex and very rapid changes in infantry tactics, which fundamentally altered the way wars had been fought for 150 years. This second volume concentrates on the men who fought in such important battles as those of Ypres and the Somme.

Produktdetails

• Elite
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 184mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781841761985
• ISBN-10: 1841761982
• Artikelnr.: 20983098

Autorenporträt

Stephen Bull, illustrated by Adam Hook

Inhaltsangabe

· 1916; 'the big push' against established trench lines · The Somme · Standardised production of trench materials
trench camouflage · Advances in gas warfare · Infantry training · Light machine guns · 1917: Messines & Vimy
tunnel and mine warfare · Creeping barrages
tanks
light machine guns down to section level
flame throwers · New defensive systems · 1918: the deadlock broken · German stormtroopers, British 'blobs & worms' · Trench howitzers
anti
tank rifles
sub
machine guns · Battles: the Kaisershlacht
French and Americans on the Argonne
the British break the Hindenburg Line.