Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Two Men in a Trench II
Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Two Men in a Trench 2 provides an examination of six major battles: Bannockburn, Sedgemoor, Edgehill, Killiecrankie, RAF Hornchurch (The Battle of Britain 1940) and the Big Guns of World War II at Dover and Calais. Each chapter of the book presents a clear understanding of the events and causes of each battle, before its aftermath is considered. The personalities, armies, weapons and tactics involved are described; the archaeological techniques explained; and the groundbreaking results and their impact on our understanding of events discussed. sense of humour, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver capture the drama, action and tragedy of past events and provide an insight into some of the bloodiest episodes of British history.
Two Men in a Trench
Author: Tony Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718144746
Category : Battlefields
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In this volume, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver visit the sites of six major British battles, from Shrewsbury to Culloden, and carry out a full archaeological investigation at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat and chaos of battle they closely follow the progress of each engagement and answer key historical questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events. Each chapter is a fully framed investigation and follows an episode of the BBC television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the past, Tony and Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of conflict like shadows, and in the process they show that battlefields are some of our most important national monuments.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718144746
Category : Battlefields
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In this volume, Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver visit the sites of six major British battles, from Shrewsbury to Culloden, and carry out a full archaeological investigation at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat and chaos of battle they closely follow the progress of each engagement and answer key historical questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events. Each chapter is a fully framed investigation and follows an episode of the BBC television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the past, Tony and Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of conflict like shadows, and in the process they show that battlefields are some of our most important national monuments.
Men of Granite
Author: Duane E. Shaffer
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"Men of Granite is a thorough history of New Hampshire combat troops in the years before and during the Civil War. Focusing On the day-to-day experiences of the common soldier and his reasons for taking up the fight against the Confederacy, Shaffer has mined myriad primary sources to draw together the experiences of all of the state's regiments and units into this single, cohesive volume." "Further enhanced by twenty illustrations and twelve maps, Shaffer's detailed survey reinserts the story of New Hampshire forces into the annals of Civil War history and, through frequent quotation of soldiers' own accounts, gives voice to the motivations and daily experiences of determined Union forces from the Granite State."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"Men of Granite is a thorough history of New Hampshire combat troops in the years before and during the Civil War. Focusing On the day-to-day experiences of the common soldier and his reasons for taking up the fight against the Confederacy, Shaffer has mined myriad primary sources to draw together the experiences of all of the state's regiments and units into this single, cohesive volume." "Further enhanced by twenty illustrations and twelve maps, Shaffer's detailed survey reinserts the story of New Hampshire forces into the annals of Civil War history and, through frequent quotation of soldiers' own accounts, gives voice to the motivations and daily experiences of determined Union forces from the Granite State."--BOOK JACKET.
Engineering News and American Railway Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Canadian Teacher ...
Author: Gideon E. Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Engineering and Contracting
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
Book Description
The Cement Era
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cement
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cement
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Surviving Trench Warfare
Author: Bill Rawling
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144262020X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close look at how technology and tactics came together in the Canadian Corps. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from interviews to staff reports, Rawling describes the range of new weapons that the Canadians adopted, including tanks, trench mortars, and poison gas, making it clear that the decisive factor in the war was not the new technology itself but how the Canadians responded to it. Only through intensive training, specialization, and close coordination between infantry and artillery could the Canadians overcome the deadly trinity of machine-guns, barbed wire, and artillery. Surviving Trench Warfare offers a whole new understanding of the First World War, replacing the image of a static trench war with one in which soldiers actively struggled for control over their weapons and their environment, and achieved it. Released to coincide with the centenary of the First World War, this edition includes a new introduction and afterword reflecting the latest scholarship on the conduct of the war.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144262020X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close look at how technology and tactics came together in the Canadian Corps. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from interviews to staff reports, Rawling describes the range of new weapons that the Canadians adopted, including tanks, trench mortars, and poison gas, making it clear that the decisive factor in the war was not the new technology itself but how the Canadians responded to it. Only through intensive training, specialization, and close coordination between infantry and artillery could the Canadians overcome the deadly trinity of machine-guns, barbed wire, and artillery. Surviving Trench Warfare offers a whole new understanding of the First World War, replacing the image of a static trench war with one in which soldiers actively struggled for control over their weapons and their environment, and achieved it. Released to coincide with the centenary of the First World War, this edition includes a new introduction and afterword reflecting the latest scholarship on the conduct of the war.
Good Roads
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description