The Story Behind Your First World War Family Treasures
by Martin Mace
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781473895485
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-01-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
248 Pages
The First World War touched every community and almost every home in the UK. In its wake, it left behind memories and mementos of loved ones. For every casualty there was a scar, for every death there...
The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn't felt on the battlefield in some form or another. This volume, from eminent historian...
The Territorial Force (TF) is often ignored by students of the Great War. However, these ‘Saturday Night Soldiers’ played a vital and underestimated part in the Allied victory. There were equal...
First World War Tanks and the New Warfare 1900-1945
Edited by Alaric Searle
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781804514733
Publisher: Helion and Company
Pub Date: 2024-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
256 Pages
The employment of the first tanks by the British Army on the Western Front in September 1916, although symbolic rather than decisive in its effects, ushered in a new form of warfare - tank warfare....
Readers have come to expect a level of detail and critical rigor from the established military historian and author Bryan Perrett. They will not be disappointed at all here by this new publication....
When tanks, the newly invented British weapon, were used for the first time in a mass attack on November 20 1917, they not only achieved one of the most remarkable successes of the First World War but...
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon.
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