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  • The Great War on the Western Front

    A Short History

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century. Most people hold it in their minds as a milestone in modern history, yet many of them know less about this devastating clash of nations than they would like—and they would be interested to discover more. Paddy Griffith's short history of the conflict has been written with them in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle Tactics of the Western Front

    The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Forward into Battle

    Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth century as is often claimed, and that the tank never supplanted the infantryman in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • British Fighting Methods in the Great War

    Edited by Paddy Griffith ...
    This collection points out the very real and substantial evolution of tactics that went on in response to new warfare and how this had a real effect on the positive performance of the British Army from 1916 onwards. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Vauban Fortifications of France

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 42 - Fortress
    An illustrated history of the designs of Vauban, the foremost military engineer of France throughout the 18th century.Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • World War II Desert Tactics

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 162 - Elite
    A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrainFrom 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies. The British, Italians, German Afrika Korps and US Army all addressed and learned from the special problems human, logistical, mechanical and tactical of the desert environment, most significantly fighting in a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Vauban Fortifications of France

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 42 - Fortress
    An illustrated history of the designs of Vauban, the foremost military engineer of France throughout the 18th century.Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • World War II Desert Tactics

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 162 - Elite
    A fascinating insight into the dangers and difficulties of operating within the desert terrainFrom 1940 to 1943 North Africa saw the first major desert campaign by modern mechanised armies. The British, Italians, German Afrika Korps and US Army all addressed and learned from the special problems human, logistical, mechanical and tactical of the desert environment, most significantly fighting in a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fortifications of the Western Front 1914–18

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 24 - Fortress
    Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War.Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient, World War I rapidly changed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792–1815

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 159 - Elite
    A critical overview of the French infantry tactics which made them masters of Europe but eventually resulted in their defeat at Waterloo.Bonaparte's Grande Armée, one of the most renowned battle-winning machines in history, evolved from a merging of the professional army of the Ancien Régime and the volunteers and conscripts of the Revolutionary levée en masse – although the contribution of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fortifications of the Western Front 1914–18

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 24 - Fortress
    Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War.Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient, World War I rapidly changed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Mud, Blood and Poppycock

    Britain and the Great War

    by Gordon Corrigan ...
    The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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