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Battle Tactics of the Western Front - The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18 (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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Battle Tactics of the Western Front - The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18 (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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Historians have portrayed British participation in the Great War as
a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine
guns, untried new military technology and incompetent generals who
threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In
this book Paddy Griffith, a renowned military historian, examines
the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and
challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British
army's plans and technologies persistently failed during the
improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its
technique, technology and, eventually, its self-assurance. By the
time of its successful sustained offensive in the autumn of 1918,
he argues, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill
and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during the Second
World War. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and
practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith
argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced
tactics and to avoid casualties; but that the breakthrough was
simply impossible under the conditions of the time. By the end of
1916 the British were already masters of 'storm-troop tactics' and,
in several important respects, further ahead than the Germans would
be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of
all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, 'commando-style'
trench raiding, the use of light machine guns or the barrage fire
of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British
generals were not military geniuses, the book maintains they should
at least be credited with having effectively invented much of
thetwentieth century's art of war.
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