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Carregando... Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18 (1994)de Paddy Griffith
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In dit boek weerlegt Paddy Griffith vele mythes, legendes en vooroordelen over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Hij toont aan hoe vanaf het prille begin ervan in het Engelse leger de kiem aanwezig was om tot een organisatie te komen die finaal in staat zou zijn de oorlog in haar voordeel te beëindigen. Alle wapens en technieken die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ingezet en gebruikt werden, waren al aanwezig in de Eerste Wereldoorlog (met uitzondering van de atoombom, natuurlijk). ( ) Griffith argues that Douglas Haig is not the hidebound butcher he is frequently portrayed. Rather Haig and his commanders steadily evolved a set of infantry, artillery, and combined arms tactics that would lead to success on the battlefield. This was quite an "out of the box" examination of the British Army, and a fascinating read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Referências a esta obra em recursos externos. Wikipédia em inglês (16)Historians have portrayed British participation in the Great War as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, untried new military technology and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book Paddy Griffith, a renowned military historian, examines the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies persistently failed 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 autumn of 1918, he argues, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during the Second World War. 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 the breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. By the end of 1916 the British were already masters of 'storm-troop tactics' and, in several important respects, 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, the book maintains they should at least be credited with having effectively invented much of the twentieth century's art of war. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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