Manual Of Field Works All Arms 1921

Author : War Office November 1921,War Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1843427079

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Manual of Field Works (All Arms) 1921 by War Office November 1921,War Office Pdf

This manual summarises the state of the art after the First World War, and includes no fewer than 175 plates with a range of diagrams of the most significant value. It examines the general principles underlying field fortifications, and explains why they are needed. Emphasis is placed on the need for defences in the field against artillery, gas, mines and aircraft: all lessons learned in the First War. There follows a great deal of valuable detail on how and where to site trenches, both for infantry and machine guns. The real meat comes in the long section dealing with the trenches themselves and fire positions, and how to establish a defensive system. Camouflage is included in this section of the book. The detail in the book is quite remarkable, and covers other matters of importance, such as bridging, accommodation in the field, communications and demolition s, and there is a special section on land mines and traps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:924513976

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Manual of Field Works (all Arms) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Military field engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015062337392

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Manual of Field Works (all Arms). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229258

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Salient by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr Pdf

A riveting lyrical constellation centered on the Battle of Passchendaele in Flanders Fields and tibetan protective magic In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, “This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core ‘severance’ practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint.” Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading “not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning.” Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750979085

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'Conceal, Create, Confuse' by Martin Davies Pdf

This is the story of the British Army's endeavours during the Great War to deceive the enemy and trick him into weakening his defences and redeploying his reserves. In this year-by-year account, Martin Davies shows how Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig actively encouraged their Army commanders to employ trickery so that all attacks should come as a 'complete surprise' to the enemy. The methods of concealment of real military artefacts and the creation of dummy ones were ingenious enough but the real art lay in the development of geographically dispersed deception plans which disguised the real time and place of attack and forced the enemy to defend areas threatened by fake operations. Some of these plans, such as disguising mules as tanks and creating dummy airfields bordered on the farcical but were often amazingly effective. The driving force behind the deception plans was GHQ and the Army commanders, further dispelling the myth of 'Lions led by Donkeys'. Evidence shows that the British Army employed deception to advantage in all their theatres of operation.

Author : Andrew Robertshaw
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752484679

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24hr Trench by Andrew Robertshaw Pdf

The trench was the frontline Tommy's home. He lived, ate, slept, and sometimes died in this narrow passage amongst the slime of mud and blood on the Western Front. His washbasin was a mess-tin, his cooker – a small fire built into the wall, his entertainment – his friends, his fear – the man living in the trench on the other side of No Man's Land. Over 6 million men died whilst serving in the trenches – how did they live in them? For the first time, World War I historian Andrew Robertshaw and a group of soldiers, archaeologists and historians use official manuals and diaries to build a real trench system and live in it for 24 hours, recreating the frontline Tommy's daily existence, answering the questions: How do you build a trench quietly? How clean can you really get in a trench? How easy is it to sleep? How do you keep yourself entertained? How to do you stay alive and kill the enemy? And many more... Hour-by-hour, the Tommy's day unfolds through stunning colour photographs in this ground-breaking experiment in Great War history.

Author : Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773573116

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Beneath Flanders Fields by Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle Pdf

The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.

Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : UCAL:B4424948

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Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps by Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps Pdf

Author : V.G. Kiernan
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804291092

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan Pdf

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was ‘civilised’, but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

Author : Victor Gordon Kiernan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0773517677

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960 by Victor Gordon Kiernan Pdf

Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, this volume presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.

Author : E. P. F. Rose,J. Ehlen,U. L. Lawrence
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786203946

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Military Aspects of Geology by E. P. F. Rose,J. Ehlen,U. L. Lawrence Pdf

This book complements the Geological Society’s Special Publication 362: Military Aspects of Hydrogeology. Generated under the auspices of the Society’s History of Geology and Engineering Groups, it contains papers from authors in the UK, USA, Germany and Austria. Substantial papers describe some innovative engineering activities, influenced by geology, undertaken by the armed forces of the opposing nations in World War I. These activities were reactivated and developed in World War II. Examples include trenching from World War I, tunnelling and quarrying from both wars, and the use of geologists to aid German coastal fortification and Allied aerial photographic interpretation in World War II. The extensive introduction and other chapters reveal that ‘military geology’ has a longer history. These chapters relate to pre-twentieth century coastal fortification in the UK and the USA; conflict in the American Civil War; long-term ‘going’ assessments for German forces; tunnel repair after wartime route denial in Hong Kong; and tunnel detection after recent insurgent improvisation in Iraq.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B648378

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The Royal Engineers Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andy Belsey
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785008597

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Modelling World War 1 Trench Warfare by Andy Belsey Pdf

Aimed at both the beginner and more experienced modeller, this is a guide to the design, planning and creation of realistic models in 1:285 and 1:32 scales. Covering British, French and German trenches of the Western Front, this book includes the different construction, materials and repair methods used during the conflict. Each chapter includes the historical background, together with step-by-step instructions. With over 300 photographs, this book includes: why trenches were a necessity to save lives and how they adapted through the war; how to build models of British 'ideal' and typical trenches, a wet soil trench, improved shell hole, front line dugout, tunnels and mines, and a hospital tent. Construction advice is given for typical French and German trenches, together with a reversed German trench (modelled under British control) and a German concrete bunker. The creation of artillery models, realistic groundwork and plants is covered along with perfecting fine details such as tools, clothes, mess tins, shaving equipment, cigarette packets and letters from home. Finally, there is a guide to visiting the trenches today, a trench glossary and useful measurements at 1:32 scale.

Author : Birger Stichelbaut,David Cowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351949699

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Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above by Birger Stichelbaut,David Cowley Pdf

The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as historical photographs and maps with 3D digital topographic data from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and large scale geophysical prospection. For twentieth-century conflict landscapes and their surviving archaeological remains, these developments have encouraged a shift from a site oriented approach towards landscape-scaled research. This volume brings together an wide range of perspectives, setting traditional approaches that draw on historical and contemporary aerial photographs alongside cutting-edge prospection techniques, cross-disciplinary analyses and innovative methods of presenting this material to audiences. Essays from a range of disciplines (archaeology, history, geography, heritage and museum studies) studying conflict landscapes across the globe throughout the twentieth century, all draw on aerial and landscape perspectives to past conflicts and their legacy and the complex issues for heritage management. Organized in four parts, the first three sections take a broadly chronological approach, exploring the use of aerial evidence to expand our understanding of the two World Wars and the Cold War. The final section explores ways that the aerial perspective can be utilized to represent historical landscapes to a wide audience. With case studies ranging from the Western Front to the Cold War, Ireland to Russia, this volume demonstrates how an aerial perspective can both support and challenge traditional archaeological and historical analysis, providing an innovative new means of engaging with the material culture of conflict and commemoration.

Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538174296

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Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare by Earl J. Hess Pdf

"A unique recounting of the Confederate use of landmines during the American Civil War. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that stresses not only the tactical and technological challenges but also considers the moral stigma attached to this new weapon of war"--