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Author : Michael Barthorp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850790093
Author : Michael Barthorp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1850790094
Author : Cecil Constant Philip Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain. Army
ISBN : UOM:39015032118872
Author : Liliane Funcken,Fred Funcken
Publisher : Ward Lock Limited.
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0706351819
Author : Philip Henry Smitherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1231684313
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2062 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210120478
Author : Robbie MacNiven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472842503
During the Seven Years' War (1755–63), a number of independent light-infantry outfits served under British command and dedicated light companies were added to the British Army's regular infantry battalions. The light companies were disbanded after the war but the prominent role played by light infantry was not forgotten, and in 1771–72 light-infantry companies were reinstated in every regiment in the British Isles. Although William Howe formed a training camp at Salisbury in 1774 specifically to practise light-infantry doctrine, the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 found the British Army wanting, and the light companies were no different. After evacuating Boston in March 1776, Howe began to remodel and drill his army at Halifax, standardizing lighter uniform and emphasizing more open-order tactics. He also brigaded his light companies together into composite battalions, which went on to fight in almost every major engagement during the American Revolution. They spearheaded British assaults, using night-time surprise and relying upon the bayonet in engagements such as Paoli and Old Tappan. They also matched their regular and irregular opponents in bush-fighting, and at times fought in far-flung detachments alongside Native American and Loyalist allies on the frontier. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the formation, uniform, equipment, doctrines and tactics of these elite light infantry companies and battalions, and considers how, over the course of the war they developed a fearsome reputation, and exemplified the psychological characteristics exhibited by crack military units across history.
Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718251
British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late 50s and early 60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period - horror, crime and comedy - and takes a fresh look at the 'swinging London' films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.
Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472819789
In 1917 the soldiers of the Canadian Corps would prove themselves the equal of any fighting on the Western Front, while on the other side of the wire, the men of the Royal Bavarian Army won a distinguished reputation in combat. Employing the latest weapons and pioneering tactics, these two forces would clash in three notable encounters: the Canadian storming of Vimy Ridge, the back-and-forth engagement at Fresnoy and at the sodden, bloody battle of Passchendaele. Featuring carefully chosen archive photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this study assesses these three hard-fought battles in 1917 on the Western Front, and offers a new take on the evolving nature of infantry combat in World War I.
Author : Alejandro M. de Quesada
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830824
This book traces the evolution of the German Army uniform from 1870 to the present day, using nearly 800 photographs to offer the reader an unparalleled analysis. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, explaining interesting aspects of the soldiers uniform, insignia and equipment.It begins with the German Empire at its height, with the iconic spiked Pickelhaube and the colonial troops in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and moves on to the field-grey uniforms of the First World War. After 1918, the uniforms of the Reichswehr and the Freikorps are detailed, and then those of the revived Wehrmacht up to the end of the Second World War. The post-war years saw the establishment of the Bundeswehr in the West and East Germanys Nationalen Volksarmee, facing each other across the border of a divided Germany, before reunification in 1991.No other countrys army has undergone such changes in the past century-and-a-half, and this book provides a unique visual record of those changes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175012427947
Author : Nigel Thomas,Toomas Boltowsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472830784
Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and Red and White Russian armies began their civil war. There were also German forces still active in what had been the northern end of Germany's Eastern Front. This book offers a concise but detailed introduction to this whole theatre of war, focusing on the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and relevant German and Russian forces, plus Finnish, Danish and Swedish contingents. For each region there is a detailed map as well as meticulous orders-of-battle and insignia charts. Detailed for the first time in the English language, this fascinating book concisely tells the story of the birth of these Baltic nation states.
Author : Philip Jowett,Brent Snodgrass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782001560
In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world by their effective resistance. At the end of both these campaigns – the Winter War, and the Continuation War – the fiercely patriotic defiance of vastly stronger Soviet forces by Marshal Mannerheim's soldiers won their country a unique prize: although forced to accept harsh terms, Finland was never occupied by the Red Army, and retained its independence. This book explains and illustrates, for the first time in English, the organization, uniforms, equipment and tactics of Finland's defenders.
Author : Benjamin Lai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780960579
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world. China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world's largest economy, and China's military capabilities and global ambitions are the single greatest long-term pre-occupation of Western governments. The PLA has progressed steadily – if slowly – since its creation in 1949, from a mass army of unsophisticated infantry limited to 'human wave' tactics into a highly sophisticated force with wide capabilities. The most recent reforms (1989 to the present day) have been made possible by massive economic liberalization, and have seen not only the modernization of all the armed forces but the beginnings of global outreach, even including Chinese participation in UN peace-keeping missions to Africa, the Middle East, and Haiti. Featuring rare photographs and specially commissioned color artwork, this study explores the developing structure, organization, equipment, appearance, and character of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from its creation until today.
Author : Ian Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472818317
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880–81 and 1899–1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature of warfare across these campaigns was shaped by the realities of the terrain and by Boer fighting techniques. Independent and individualistic, the Boers were not professional soldiers but a civilian militia who were bound by the terms of the 'Commando system' to come together to protect their community against an outside threat. By contrast the British Army was a full-time professional body with an established military ethos, but its over-dependence on conventional infantry tactics led to a string of Boer victories. This fully illustrated study examines the evolving nature of Boer military techniques, and contrasts them with the British experience, charting the development of effective British mounted tactics from the first faltering steps of 1881 through to the final successes of 1902.