The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Other Allied Armies French
Early Trench Tactics in the French Army. The Second Battle of Artois, May - June, 1915
ISBN
9781138249509
Purchase Price
£48.35 (new)
Date Purchased
June 23, 2020
Publisher
Routledge (2016, Abingdon Oxon & New York)
Notes
This book is part of the Ashgate Studies in First World War History series; Series Editor John Bourne of the University of Birmingham. The book seeks to ameliorate the tendency in the English speaking world to downplay the dominant part played by the French, who for most of the war provided the bulk of the Allied fighting forces on the Western Front. The book has two main foci: it is an in-depth battle narrative and analysis, and also a work on the tactical evolution of the French Army in Spring 1915 as it endeavoured, aggressively to come to grips with trench warfare. The book argues that, contrary to received opinion, French Army bureaucracy proved effective at very quickly taking in, digesting, and then disseminating lessons learned at the front.
9781138249509
Purchase Price
£48.35 (new)
Date Purchased
June 23, 2020
Publisher
Routledge (2016, Abingdon Oxon & New York)
Notes
This book is part of the Ashgate Studies in First World War History series; Series Editor John Bourne of the University of Birmingham. The book seeks to ameliorate the tendency in the English speaking world to downplay the dominant part played by the French, who for most of the war provided the bulk of the Allied fighting forces on the Western Front. The book has two main foci: it is an in-depth battle narrative and analysis, and also a work on the tactical evolution of the French Army in Spring 1915 as it endeavoured, aggressively to come to grips with trench warfare. The book argues that, contrary to received opinion, French Army bureaucracy proved effective at very quickly taking in, digesting, and then disseminating lessons learned at the front.