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Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heavy Guns and Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
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ISBN 13 : 9780608359809
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Heavy Guns and Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by . This book was released on with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Heavy Guns and Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333173678
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Heavy Guns and Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heavy Guns and Light: A History of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery Hat the Rebellion which terminated a quarter of a century ago actually threatened the life of the nation, and that it was successfully eu countered and conquered by the soldiers consti tuting the Union armies, goes without saying. The Fourth Regiment of New York Heavy Artillery participated in this work from near the beginning to the close of the war and as the recollections of that period are fading out of mind, and the surviving actors themselves passing away, it seems entirely proper that a permanent record of the regiment's career should be made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Hyland Clare Kirk
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295767922
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Heavy Guns and Light written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Survey of German Tactics, 1918 written by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472815173
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book German Machine Guns of World War I written by Stephen Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the British and French began to deploy lighter machine guns alongside their heavier weapons, the Germans fielded the Danish Madsen and British Lewis as stopgaps, but chose to adapt the MG 08 into a compromise weapon – the MG 08/15 – which would play a central role in the revolutionary developments in infantry tactics that characterized the last months of the conflict. In the 1940s, the two weapons were still in service with German forces fighting in a new world war. Drawing upon eyewitness battlefield reports, this absorbing study assesses the technical performance and combat record of these redoubtable and influential German machine guns, and their strengths and limitations in a variety of battlefield roles.
Author : Stephen Cohen
Publisher : Footsteps of War
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Automatic Weapons & Machine Guns written by Stephen Cohen and published by Footsteps of War. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows in the footsteps of many past conflicts from around the world and introduces the reader to the many different types of automatic/machine gun weapons used in those conflicts. Having travelled around the world visiting museums and battle sites and actually seeing, touching and in some cases firing some of the weapons included in this book provided me with some solid insights into their service through many different theatres of war. In most cases, you will find references to the weapon's history, their service period and specifications, as well as other interesting information that I have collected over the years.
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472836154
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Hotchkiss Machine Guns written by John Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was successful enough to persuade Laurence Benét and Henri Mercié to develop the Modèle Portative: a man-portable version which, it was hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat. Though it served the French and US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where French and British units fought alongside each other), the Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima, battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was the 'Woodpecker' – the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its characteristically slow rate of fire – which cut swathes through their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.
Author : William Thomas Venner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627908
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War written by William Thomas Venner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of the Civil War, the men of the 30th North Carolina rushed to join the regiment, proclaiming, "we will whip the Yankees, or give them a right to a small part of our soil--say 2 feet by 6 feet." Once the Tar Heels experienced combat, their attitudes changed. One rifleman recorded: "We came to a Yankee field hospital ... we moved piles of arms, feet, hands." By 1865, the unit's survivors reflected on their experiences, wondering "when and if I return home--will I be able to fit in?" Drawing on letters, journals, memoirs and personnel records, this history follows the civilian-soldiers from their mustering-in to the war's final moments at Appomattox. The 30th North Carolina had the distinction of firing at Abraham Lincoln on July 12, 1864, as the president stood upon the ramparts of Ft. Stevens outside Washington, D.C., and firing the last regimental volley before the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Author : James H. Willbanks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094857
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Machine Guns written by James H. Willbanks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The machine gun—often called the killing machine—revolutionized modern ground combat, brought an end to the traditional infantry and cavalry charge, and changed the battlefields of war forever. This volume in the Weapons and Warfare series describes the history of machine guns from the mid-19th century to the present, following both the evolution of small arms technology and the impact of machine guns on the battlefield, on military strategy, and on human society. This book discusses subjects ranging from the forerunners of mechanical and automatic guns, to the unusual history of the Civil War-era Gatling gun (the first practical machine gun, not used by the Union army because Gatling was a Southerner), to the machine guns developed for the world wars and those for present day use. Readers will see how the advent of the machine gun revolutionized ground combat—and how in some instances, technology outran tactics and doctrines, with disastrous consequences.
Author : United States. Navy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Big Guns! A Few Facts, Comprising the Naval Actions of the United States' Navy ... Addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. By a Friend of Peace written by United States. Navy and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon C. Rhea
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807131114
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)
Download or read book To the North Anna River written by Gordon C. Rhea and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 through 25, a phase oddly ignored by historians, was critical in the clash between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. During those thirteen days -- an interlude bracketed by horrific battles that riveted the public's attention -- a game of guile and endurance between Grant and Lee escalated to a suspenseful draw on Virginia's North Anna River. From the bloodstained fields of the Mule Shoe to the North Anna River, with Meadow Bridge, Myers Hill, Harris Farm, Jericho Mills, Ox Ford, and Doswell Farm in between, grueling night marches, desperate attacks, and thundering cavalry charges became the norm for both Grant's and Lee's men. But the real story of May 13--25 lay in the two generals' efforts to outfox each other, and Rhea charts their every step and misstep. Realizing that his bludgeoning tactics at the Bloody Angle were ineffective, Grant resorted to a fast-paced assault on Lee's vulnerable points. Lee, outnumbered two to one, abandoned the offensive and concentrated on anticipating Grant's maneuvers and shifting quickly enough to repel them. It was an amazingly equal match of wits that produced a gripping, high-stakes bout of warfare -- a test, ultimately, of improvisation for Lee and of perseverance for Grant.
Author : Staff U.S. Army
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782895663
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Survey Of German Tactics 1918 written by Staff U.S. Army and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War is often represented as a stolid slugging match of opposing trench lines being pounded by massed artillery, however, the German offensives of 1918 broke through the British lines with great and dramatic success. The German High command could not hope to match the Allies for manpower which had allowed them to ruthlessly push forward at the Somme and Passchendaele or compete with the new weapon of the war - the Tank. The German generals strained every resource and innovated their tactics to break through the trench lines; the solutions are still in use today as the keys to battle success; infiltration, operational secrecy, intense but short hurricane bombardments, dedicated elite stormtroops, concentration of effort, air supremacy. The American Staff were determined to learn from their opponent’s success and documented all of the tactics that had worked so well; they produced a formidable treatise of tactics and strategic insight.
Author : United States Cavalry School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tactical Principles and Logistics for Cavalry written by United States Cavalry School and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Browning Machine Guns, Caliber .30, M1917A1, M1919A4, and M1919A6 written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960107
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns written by Chris McNab and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower – the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself the MG 34 was an excellent weapon: an air-cooled, recoil-operated machine gun that could deliver killing firepower at ranges of more than 1,000m. Yet simply by changing its mount and feed mechanism, the operator could radically transform its function. On its standard bipod it was a light machine gun, ideal for infantry assaults; on a tripod it could serve as a sustained-fire medium machine gun. During World War II, the MG 34 was superseded by a new GPMG – the MG 42. More efficient to manufacture and more robust, it had a blistering 1,200rpm rate of fire. Nicknamed 'Hitler's buzzsaw' by Allied troops, it was arguably the finest all-round GPMG ever produced, and alongside the MG 34 it inflicted heavy casualties. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and drawing upon numerous technical manuals and first-hand accounts, this study explores the technological development, varied roles and lasting influence of the revolutionary MG 34 and MG 42 machine guns and their postwar successors.
