1914 : voices from the battlefields
Richardson, Matthew2013
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WWI and ANZAC Day. The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt. These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were eyewitnesses to them. There is a freshness and immediacy to their accounts which Matthew Richardson exploits in this thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and the junior officers of the British Army, the men at the sharp end of the fighting.
Main title:
1914 : voices from the battlefields / by Matthew Richardson ; foreword by Peter Liddle.
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Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2013.
Collation:
viii, 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [290]-292) and index.
ISBN:
9781848847774
Dewey class:
940.481
Language:
English
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BRN:
389484