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Cargando... Cambrai 1917: The Birth of Armoured Warfarepor Alexander Turner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Though relatively old at this point, this still feels like an incisive examination of the first real tank battle, besides being a consideration of the reality that while effective planning was happening by this stage of the war in both the German and British militaries, the reality is that on the fly improvisation seldom worked in 1917, such was the state of battlefield communications. Perhaps most damning from the British perspective is the failure to imagine what a German counter-response might look like, and to act accordingly sooner. Besides that, Turner writes with great compassion about the human cost; his time as a combat officer in Iraq filling him with awe at the ghastly numbers of combat in the "Great War." ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This crucial new study of one of the seminal events in military history dispells many of the myths surrounding Cambrai 1917 of World War I (1914-1918). Common perception classifies it as the "world's first tank battle" but Alexander Turner shows us that the real importance of Cambrai was that it saw the first use of armor as an operational shock tactic. With the pre-eminence of armor, the conduct of war was irrevocably changed. The battle also heralded the combined use of aircraft, armor, and artillery, marking the birth of modern combined-arms techniques. Written by a military historian and serving soldier, this is a fascinating analysis of a battle which was a stalemate, yet spawned a host of war-winning tactics. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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