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This volume includes information on taking over and handing over
trenches, trench routine, and action in case of attack. A list of
Trench Stores and information on the prevention of chilled feet and
frostbite are covered in appendices.
A soldier's-eye view of the 45th Infantry Division and its heroic
efforts during World War II, from the beaches of Italy to the
liberation of Dachau, Anzio was one of the greatest battles of
World War II - a desperate gamble to land a large amphibious force
behind German lines in Italy in the hope that the war could be
shortened by capturing Rome. It also turned out to be one of the
bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. Based on extensive
research into archives, photos, letters, diaries, previously
classified official records, and scores of personal interviews with
surviving veterans of the 45th, The Rock of Anzio is written with
an immediacy that puts the reader right onto the battlefield and
shows us war through the eyes of ordinary men called upon to
perform extraordinary deeds.
The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the
Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of
discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably
suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto
focused on the 312 notorious 'shot at dawn' cases, many thousands
of British soldiers were tried by court martial during the Great
War. This book provides the first comprehensive study of discipline
and morale in the British Army during the Great War by using a case
study of the Irish regular and Special Reserve batallions. In doing
so, Timothy Bowman demonstrates that breaches of discipline did
occur in the Irish regiments but in most cases these were of a
minor nature. Controversially, he suggests that where executions
did take place, they were militarily necessary and served the
purpose of restoring discipline in failing units. Bowman also shows
that there was very little support for the emerging Sinn Fein
movement within the Irish regiments. This book will be essential
reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and
will interest any general reader concerned with how units maintain
discipline and morale under the most trying conditions. -- .
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