Author: Steven E. ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
US Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941: The services : air service, engineers, and special troops, 1919-41
Author: Steven E. ClayOrder of Battle of the British Army 1914
Author: Richard A RinaldiPublisher: Ravi Rikhye
ISBN: 0977607283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
A complete Order of Battle for the British Army in 1914. 470 content pages.
Imperial German Army, 1914-18
Author: Hermann CronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This work is a detailed account of the composition, structure and organization of the World War I German army. It contains over 150 pages of detailed orders-of-battle and extensive lists of regiments and brigades, and all arms-of-service from infantry to sanitary troops.
Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War
Author: Battle Tactics of the Western Front
Author: Paddy GriffithPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300066630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.
Borrowed Soldiers
Author: Mitchell A. YockelsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806155604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Infantry in Battle
Author: Infantry School (U.S.)Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428916911
Category : Infantry drill and tactics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a And 2b
Author: A. F. BeckePublisher:
ISBN: 9781847347398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Part 2a of the official Order of Battle of the Divisions of the British Army in the Great War compiled by Major A. F. Becke lists the Territorial Mounted Divisions & 1st Line Territorial Force Divisions. 1st, 2nd, 2nd/2nd, 4th and Yeomanry Mounted Divs; 42nd - 56th Inf Divs. together with appendices on changes in the establishment and composition of Territorial divisions on the Western Front; the 2nd mounted division (Egypt); the 52nd (Lowland) division (Gallipoli); and the 53rd (Welsh) division (Palestine). Part 2b of Major A. F. Becke s official Order of Battle of the British Army in the Great War continues the listing of the Territorial Army divisions as well as the Home Service divisions: 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions & Home Service Divisions. 57th - 69th Inf Divs; 71st - 73rd Home Service Divs: 74th (Yeomanry) Div, 75th Div. With appendices on the Central Force and its commanders; Graduated battalikons and the 90-mm field gun; the work of the Army Ordnance Dept; and the War Establishments of the 57th (2nd W. Lancs) division in France in 1918; the 58th (2nd/1st London) division in Palestine, 1918; the 73rd division in England, 1917; the 69th (2nd/E.Anglian) division in England, 1918; and the Cyclist DIvision, England, 1918.
Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Author: Brian N. HallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book reveals the impact of communications on the military operations of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918
Author: Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description