Although many books have been published about the Western Front, few
of them look beyond the Great War to consider trench warfare in a
wider historical context. Trench warfare was not an aberration of the
Western Front. On the contrary, it was a watershed in a greater
upheaval in warfare which started in the 1850s and continued well
beyond the First World War. This book examines how trench warfare was
fought, studying the Crimea, American Civil War and Japanese War
1904-05. He looks at how the Western Front of 1914–18 differed from
the trench fighting of the Second World War and the Korean War.The
book examines the evolution of trench warfare, technologically and
tactically, from the Crimean War to the Korean War, during which time
developments in military technology often advanced far beyond tactical
thinking. Trench Warfare 1850 1950 discusses the impact of trench
warfare on military thinking and considers how the stalemate of the
Western Front was overcome. Emergency technologies, from the hand
grenade to the tank, are discussed to highlight their impact on trench
warfare and, ultimately, on warfare as a whole. Tactically, trench
warfare led to the development of the concept of deep battle which was
later employed by the Red Army in the Second World War.
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ISBN
9781781598764
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Pen & Sword Military (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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