Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18

by Paddy Griffith

Book Overview

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 interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300066635
• ISBN13: 9780300066630
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"