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Crossing No Man's Land - Experience and Learning with the Northumberland Fusiliers in the Great War (Hardcover)
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Crossing No Man's Land - Experience and Learning with the Northumberland Fusiliers in the Great War (Hardcover)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
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This book addresses the potentially deadly challenge of getting
across No Man's Land in good shape to fight at the other side. It
explores the development of the British Army's infantry battle
tactics during the Great War using the largest infantry regiment,
the Northumberland Fusiliers, as a case study. Principles and, in
particular, practice are covered. The study demonstrates the
transformation of the British Army from an essentially Victorian
army to a recognisably modern army; adapting tactics to the
circumstances and saving lives in the process. A novel research
approach is used; comparing Army doctrine with the reality at
battalion level which yields a unique insight into experience and
learning on the Western Front. Two hundred and eleven attacks and
75 raids are identified through a census of all 28 of the
Regiment's battalion war diaries covering 25,876 diary days. The
analysis is set in the overall context of the War taking in the
full sweep, from beginning to end, and also gives some small
insight into the so called sideshows. A by-product of the research
approach has been a detailed activity analysis, the `doings',
summarising what each Northumberland Fusiliers' battalion was
engaged in every day and for the Regiment in aggregate. This is a
secondary but no less valuable theme of the study, which also
yields good material on infantry training. Furthermore, when
activities are known on a daily basis, it is possible to correlate
attacks with fatalities and to attempt to discover relationships
between the two.
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