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.
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