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British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War - 'The Infantry cannot do with a gun less' (Paperback)
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British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War - 'The Infantry cannot do with a gun less' (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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In the popular imagination, the battle fields of the Western Front
were dominated by the machine gun. Yet soldiers at the time were
clear that artillery - not machine guns - dictated the nature,
tactics and strategy of the conflict. Only in the last months of
the war when the Allies had amassed sufficient numbers of artillery
and learned how to use it in an integrated and coherent manner was
the stalemate broken and war ended. In this lucid and prize-winning
study, the steady development of artillery, and the growing
realisation of its primacy within the British Expeditionary Force
is charted and analysed. Through an examination of British and
Dominion forces operating on the Western Front, the book looks at
how tactical and operational changes affected the overall strategy.
Chapters cover the role of artillery in supporting infantry
attacks, counter-battery work, artillery in defence, training and
command and staff arrangements. In line with the 'learning curve'
thesis, the work concludes that despite many setbacks and missed
opportunities, by 1918 the Royal Artillery had developed effective
and coordinated tactics to overcome the defensive advantages of
trench warfare that had mired the Western Front in bloody stalemate
for the previous three years.
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