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BATTLE TACTICS OF THE WESTERN FRONT

by Paddy Griffith

Published by Yale University Press. 1st. 1994

Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The British Army's Art of Attack 1916-18. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 286 pages.

A fine copy in dustwrapper which is very slightly edge rubbed.

ISBN: 0300059108
Stock no. 1329404

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Contents

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • PART ONE: Setting the Scene
  • 1 Introduction
  • Competence and Incompetence
  • The larger second half of the war
  • 2 The Tactical Dilemma
  • The nature of tactics
  • Lines, densities and timescales
  • The storm of steel
  • PART TWO: Infantry
  • 3 Infantry during the First Two Years of the War
  • Tactics of the Old Contemptibles
  • The New Armies arrive
  • 4 The Lessons of The Somme
  • Rifles, bayonets and the cult of the bomb
  • The importance of careful preparation
  • The assault spearhead of the BEF
  • 5 The Final Eighteen Months
  • The formal Battles of 1917 and the chaotic battles of 1918
  • Flexible formations for mobile war
  • PART THREE: Heavier Weapons
  • 6 The Search for New Weapons
  • The mobilisation of invention
  • Bombs, smoke and gas
  • 7 Automatic Weapons
  • The struggle to control automatic fire
  • The rise of the light machine gun
  • 8 Artillery
  • The evolution of precision munitions
  • The shift from destructive to neutralising fire
  • The emergence of the deep battle
  • 9 Controlling the Mobile Battle
  • Cavalry and armour
  • Signals and command
  • PART FOUR: THE BEF's Tactical Achievement
  • 10 Doctrine and Training
  • Captain Partridge and the dissemination of doctrine
  • Training schools and other exhortations
  • 11 Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Some limitations in the university approach to military history
  • Appendix 2 A Great War perspective on the American Civil War
  • Appendix 3 Armies, corps and divisions of the BEF
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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