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Author : Frederick Victor Longstaff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Machine Gun written by Frederick Victor Longstaff and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ward Schrantz
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417614
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book A Machine-Gunner in France written by Ward Schrantz and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their extensive service in World War I, few members of the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division left lengthy memoirs of their experiences in the American Expeditionary Forces. But Ward Loren Schrantz filled dozens of pages with his recollections of life as a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the “Santa Fe” Division. In A Machine-Gunner in France, Schrantz extensively documents his experiences and those of his men, from training at Camp Doniphan to their voyage across the Atlantic, and to their time in the trenches in France’s Vosges Mountains and ultimately to their return home. He devotes much of his memoir to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which the 35th Division suffered heavy casualties and made only moderate gains before being replaced by fresh troops. Schrantz provides a valuable “common soldier’s” view of why the division failed to live up to the expectations of the A.E.F. high command. Schrantz also describes the daily life of a soldier, including living conditions, relations between officers and enlisted men, and the horrific experience of combat. He paints literary portraits of the warriors who populated the A.E.F. and the civilians he encountered in France. Schrantz’s small-town newspaper experience allowed him to craft a well-written and entertaining narrative. Because he did not intend his memoir for publication, the Missourian wrote in an honest and unassuming style, with extensive detail, vivid descriptions, and occasional humor. Editor Jeffrey Patrick combines his narrative with excerpts from a detailed history of the unit that Schrantz wrote for his local newspaper, and also provides an editor’s introduction and annotations to document and explain items and sources in the memoir. This is not a romantic account of the war, but a realistic record of how American citizen-soldiers actually fought on the Western Front.
Author : F. V. Longstaff
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ISBN 13 : 9781843425595
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Book of the Machine Gun 1917 written by F. V. Longstaff and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a very important text for any student of the development of the machine gun, and contains details of the history of this weapon from its inception to the mid-ppoint of the First World War. The evolution of the machine gun is detailed, followed by examples of the use of the wepon in war, and particularly in the Russo-Japanese War. Tactics are examined in detail, both from the historical point of view and tactics of the First World War, an important part of the book. Training is covered, particularly from the British Army side, and the relevant chapter has much of great value in it. Perhaps the most important part of the book however is the examination of the machine guns of the armies then at war. There is in addition a complete chapter on machine guns in the German Army, which is of specific importance to any study of the tactics on the western front. The book is illustrated with a series of good photographs and a number of line drawings of both early and current machine guns, and there is also a large scale drawing of the Vickers gun.
Author : U. S. Army (Ret ). Col George T. Raach
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634910200
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Withering Fire written by U. S. Army (Ret ). Col George T. Raach and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Withering Fire is the history of American machine gun battalions in World War I. It describes how these units evolved from a few small detachments armed with obsolete weapons to more than 200 battalions that supported all operations, and by their power saved countless American lives. It explains in detail the organization, training, equipment, and combat employment of machine gun units and in so doing adds to the understanding of how Americans actually fought.
Author : Ordnance Bureau (Navy Department)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Machine Gun, History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons written by Ordnance Bureau (Navy Department) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colonel Rod Paschall
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616204109
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 written by Colonel Rod Paschall and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1989-08-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 by Rod Paschall is the first volume in the Major Battles and Campaigns series under the general editorship of John S. D. Eisenhower. Designed for the "armchair strategist," this book offers striking proof of the inaccuracy of the conventional depiction of the trench warfare of the First World War, in which commanding generals are seen as mediocre and unimaginative, having stubbornly sent hundreds of thousands of troops over the top to be mowed down by the lethal weaponry of modern war. Paschall builds a compelling case that the generals on both sides invented ingenious new strategies that simply failed in the context of a war of attrition. In a series of vivid analyses of successive offenses, Paschall describes the generals' plans, how their plans were aimed at dislodging the entrenched enemy and restoring maneuver and breakthrough on the Western Front, and what happened when the massed soldiery under their command sought to carry out their orders. Though these strategies and tactics largely failed at the time, they would prove successful when implemented twenty years later during World War II. Dozens of photographs, many never before published, as well as theater and battlefield maps help make The Defeat of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 an outstanding and original contribution to the body of knowledge of the Great War.
Author : George M. Chinn
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Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Machine Gun written by George M. Chinn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The series of books entitled "The machine gun" was begun with the belief that the next best thing to actual knowledge is knowing where to find it. The research summarized within the covers of these volumes has been compiled by the Bureau of Ordinance, Department of the Navy, in order to place in the hands of those rightfully interested in the art of automatic weapon design, the world's recorded progress in this field of endeavor."--Vol. II, p. v.
Author : C. E. Crutchley
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781783461783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Machine Gunner, 1914-1918 written by C. E. Crutchley and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 there were only two machine guns supporting a British infantry battalion of 800 men, and in the light of the effectiveness of German and French machine guns the Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915. This remarkable book, compiled and edited by C E Crutchley, is a collection of the personal accounts of officers and men who served in the front lines with their machine guns in one of the most ghastly wars, spread over three continents. The strength of the book lies in the fact that these are the actual words of the soldiers themselves, complete with characteristic modes of expression and oddities of emphasis and spelling. All theatres of war are covered from the defence of the Suez Canal, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia in the east to France and Flanders, the German offensive of March 1918 and the final act on the Western Front that brought the war to an end. SELLING POINTS: * A harrowing story of the types of combat used in World War I * Pulls together the experiences of different people who served, helping yo to understand what these men went through 8 pages of b/w plates
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472815181
Total Pages : 163 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 163 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 : K. B. McKellar
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Machine Gun Practice and Tactics for Officers written by K. B. McKellar and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Taylor Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101544554
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Firestorm written by Taylor Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BURNING WATERS Designated Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Matt Reddy must now contend with a new threat; the Dominion—humans whose lust for power matches the Grik. But even though the Grand Alliance recognizes the danger of the Dominion, it must deal with the land-based Grik first, leaving the Imperial navy—and USS Walker—with little assistance. As war rages, more Japanese ships come through the time-space maelstrom that the Americans call The Squall. One is a “Hell Ship,” carrying prisoners of an Imperial Japan that is growing ever more ruthless in the face of looming defeat. Escorting it is a new, state-of-the-art destroyer, whose officers recognize no rules of war. Fighting on two fronts, Reddy is plunged into a firestorm of loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice. But nothing can prepare him for a devastating new Grik weapon—a weapon that could wipe out all who oppose them…
Author : Craig Deayton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 152674015X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Messines 1917 written by Craig Deayton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enemy must not get the Messines Ridge at any price So read the orders to German troops defending the vital high ground south of Ypres. On 7 June 1917, the British Second Army launched its attack with an opening like no other. In the largest secret operation of the First World War, British and Commonwealth mining companies placed over a million pounds of explosive beneath the German front-line positions in 19 giant mines which erupted like a volcano. This was just the beginning. By the end of that brilliant summers day, one of the strongest positions on the Western Front had fallen in the greatest British victory in three long years of war. For the Anzacs, who comprised one third of the triumphant Second Army, it was their most significant achievement to that point; for the men of the New Zealand Division, it would be their finest hour.It is difficult to overstate the importance of Messines for the Australians, whose first two years of war had represented an almost unending catalogue of disaster. This was both the first real victory for the AIF and the first test in senior command for Major General John Monash, who commanded the newly formed 3rd Division. Messines was a baptism of fire for the 3rd Division which came into the line alongside the battle-scarred 4th Australian Division, badly mauled at Bullecourt just six weeks earlier. The fighting at Messines would descend into unimaginable savagery, a lethal and sometimes hand-to-hand affair of bayonets, clubs, bombs and incessant machine-gun fire, described by one Australian as 72 hours of Hell. After their string of bloody defeats over 1915 and 1916, Messines would prove the ultimate test for the Australians
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Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oregon Society of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Oregon Society of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luke Mercaldo
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ISBN 13 : 9780970799777
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Allied Rifle Contracts in America written by Luke Mercaldo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
