REINVENTING WARFARE 1914-18 by Anthony Saunders ( 9781441123817 )

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Title:

REINVENTING WARFARE 1914-18
NOVEL MUNITIONS AND TACTICS OF TRENCH WARFARE

By:

Anthony Saunders

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1441123814

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9781441123817

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Publisher:

CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Pub. date:

8 December, 2011

Series:

Continuum Studies in Military History

Pages:

320

Description:

Examines how the British went about inventing and manufacturing new weaponry such as hand grenades, rifle grenades and trench mortars when no body of knowledge about trench warfare munitions existed. This title shows how tactics were developed for these fresh munitions.

Synopsis:

This title presents new research highlighting the invention of new weaponry and its front-line combat use. No army went to war in 1914 ready to conduct trench warfare operations. All the armies of the First World War discovered that prolonged trench warfare required new types of munitions alongside the conventional howitzers, large-calibre guns and explosive shells. This volume examines how the British went about inventing and manufacturing new weaponry such as hand grenades, rifle grenades and trench mortars when no body of knowledge about trench warfare munitions existed. It also examines how tactics were developed for these new munitions. Based on new research, this is the first book to discuss the complexity of invention and manufacture of novel weapons such as the Mills grenade and the Stokes mortar, and to consider the relationship between technical design and operational tactics on the ground. In so doing the book presents a different model of the trench warfare conducted by the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, and also provides a blueprint to understanding the relationship between technology and tactics applicable to all types of weapons and warfare."Continuum Studies in Military History" offers up-to-date, scholarly accounts of war and military history. Unrestricted by period or geography, the series aims to provide free-standing works that are attuned to conceptual and historiographical developments in the field while being based on original scholarship.

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25 bw illustrations

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