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  • After America's First Battles

    1861-2008

    After America’s First Battles analyzes how the U.S. military adapts after first contact—on the battlefield and across the force—and why those adjustments determine who wins, who survives, and who doesn’t.America’s first battles and their outcomes—win or lose—are well known. And all of the nation’s military institutions have historically responded to the challenges wrought by the wars that followed ... Read more

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  • Artillery in the Great War

    A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor the war itself—has rarely been examined. Artillery in the Great War traces the development of this all ... Read more

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  • British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War

    'The Infantry cannot do with a gun less'

    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    In the popular imagination, the battle fields of the Western Front were dominated by the machine gun. Yet soldiers at the time were clear that artillery - not machine guns - dictated the nature, tactics and strategy of the conflict. Only in the last months of the war when the Allies had amassed sufficient numbers of artillery and learned how to use it in an integrated and coherent manner was the ... Read more

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  • Verdun

    The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I

    by John Mosier ...
    Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history’s greatest clashes. Perfect for military history buffs, this compelling account of one of World War I’s most important battles explains why it is also the most complex and misunderstood.Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of ... Read more

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  • Underground Warfare, 1914–1918

    by Simon Jones ...
    Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war ... Read more

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  • The German Army on Vimy Ridge, 1914–1917

    by Jack Sheldon ...
    The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge ... Read more

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  • Sniping in the Great War

    by Martin Pegler ...
    A military history analyzing the evolution of sniper warfare during WWI by the firearms expert and author of Eastern Front Sniper.From the sharpshooters of the American Civil War to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, military snipers are legendary for their marksmanship and effectiveness in battle. The specialized role of the sniper developed among the ranks of the British Army over the course of World War I. ... Read more

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  • The Marne, 1914

    The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

    For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully ... Read more

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  • Falaise

    The Flawed Victory–The Destruction of Panzergruppe West, August 1944

    This WWII history critically reexamines one of the most dramatic and significant battles to follow the D-Day landings in Normandy.The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is often misunderstood. In this meticulously ... Read more

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  • Over The Top

    Great battles of the First World War

    The early battles of the First World War during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers. By early 1915, however, a new type of war had emerged - trench warfare.Modern artillery and machine-guns had been employed in the Boer War only a decade or so previously, but the perfection of their use led to the creation of a static front: ... Read more

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  • The Battle of North Cape

    The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943

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    Series series Campaign Chronicles
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