Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare
Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Defensive (Military science)
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Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Defensive (Military science)
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Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Field service (Military science)
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Author : The Staff
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Field service (Military science)
ISBN : 9781847348210
This manual strives to inculcate an offensive spirit and gives practical instructions backed by a wide range of detailed diagrams on such subjects as the siting and digging of trenches; how to construct trenches in wet ground; sanitation and latrines; the size and depth of dug-outs; drainage and flooding; Day and night routine; the care of feet; wiring and strong points; and notes on attack and defence. Studying this book and examining the diagrams will give the reader a clear idea of trench warfare as it should be conducted - at least according to the official view.
Author : Army War College (U.S.). War Department
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1917
Category :
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Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Intrenchments
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Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Intrenchments
ISBN : 9781901623529
Author : JOSEPH SHUTER. SMITH
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781847021076
Joseph Shuter Smith (1893-1950) was an American, born in Philadelphia, who enlisted in the 29th Vancouver Battalion in the fall of 1914. He saw service along the Belgian front, and in August 1916 was given a commission in the British Army. At the time this manual on trench warfare was published in 1917 he was serving as a Second Lieutenant in the infantry service with the British Expeditionary Force on the French front. The information set forth in his manual was garnered from different instruction courses and his own observations and practise whilst on active duty, and covers all aspects of trench building, maintenance, communication, use of weapons, etc., together with notes on the duties of platoon commanders and officers. Illustrated with diagrams. Shuter was also the author of Over There and Back in Three Uniforms: Being the Experiences of an American Boy in the Canadian, British and American Armies at the Front and Through No Man's Land.
Author : Infantry School (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Infantry drill and tactics
ISBN : 1428916911
Author : Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" by Siegfried Sassoon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1317172124
Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War, there still remains a stubborn perception that its commanders were incompetent, inflexible and unimaginative. Whilst much ink has been spilled vilifying or defending individual commanders, or looking for overarching trends and ’learning curves’, this is the first work to examine systematically the vertical nature of command - that is the transmission of plans from the high-command down through the rank structure to the front line. Through such an investigation, a much more rounded measure of the effectiveness of British commanders can be gained; one moves the argument beyond the overly simplistic ’casualties to ground gained’ equation that is usually offered. The Battle of Fromelles (19-20 July 1916) was selected as the case study as it was relatively small in scale, in the right period, and retains sufficient primary sources available to sustain the analysis. It also witnessed the first time Australian forces were used in offensive operations on the Western Front, and thus looms large in wider Commonwealth perceptions of ’Bumbling British Generals’. The book follows the progress of the battle plan from its inception in the strategic designs of the supreme commander down through the various intermediate level commands at operational and tactical headquarters until it became the orders that sent the infantry forward into the attack. In so doing it provides a unique insight into the strengths and weaknesses of British command structure, allowing a much more scholarly judgement of its overall effectiveness.