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Published Classics Titles |
Series No. |
1 | The Bowmen of England | Donald Featherstone |
2 | The Life & Death of the Afrika Korps | Ronald Lewin |
3 | The Old Front Line | John Masefield |
4 | Wellington & Napoleon | Robin Neillands |
5 | Beggars in Red | John Strawson |
6 | The Luftwaffe: A History | John Killen |
7 | Siege: Malta 19401943 | Ernle Bradford |
8 | Hitler as Military Commander | John Strawson |
9 | Nelsons Battles | Oliver Warner |
10 | The Western Front 19141918 | John Terraine |
11 | The Killing Ground | Tim Travers |
12 | Vimy | Pierre Berton |
13 | Dictionary of the First World War | Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal |
14 | 1918: The Last Act | Barrie Pitt |
15 | Hitlers Last Offensive | Peter Elstob |
16 | Naval Battles of World War Two | Geoffrey Bennett |
17 | Omdurman | Philip Ziegler |
18 | Strike Hard, Strike Sure | Ralph Barker |
19 | The Black Angels | Rupert Butler |
20 | The Black Ship | Dudley Pope |
21 | The Argentine Fight for the Falklands | Martin Middlebrook |
22 | The Narrow Margin | Derek Wood & Derek Dempster |
23 | Warfare in the Age of Bonaparte | Michael Glover |
24 | With the German Guns | Herbert Sulzbach |
25 | Dictionary of the Second World War | Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal |
26 | Not Ordinary Men | John Colvin |
27 | Plumer: The Soldiers General | Geoffrey Powell |
28 | Rommel as Military Commander | Ronald Lewin |
29 | Legions of Death | Rupert Butler |
30 | The Sword and the Scimitar | Ernle Bradford |
31 | By Sea and By Land | Robin Neillands |
32 | Cavalry: The History of Mounted Warfare | John Ellis |
33 | The March of the Twenty-Six | R.F. Delderfield |
34 | The Floating Republic | G.E. Manwaring & Bonamy Dobree |
35 | Tug of War: The Battle for Italy 194345 | Dominick Graham & Shelford Bidwell |
36 | Churchill & The Generals | Barrie Pitt |
37 | The Secret War | Brian Johnson |
38 | Command on the Western Front | Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson |
39 | The Operators | James Rennie |
40 | Churchill and The Admirals | Stephen Roskill |
41 | The Battle for North Africa | John Strawson |
42 | One of Our Submarines | Edward Young |
43 | The Battle of Trafalgar | Geoffrey Bennett |
44 | Fire-Power | Shelford Bidwell & Dominick Graham |
45 | Sieges of the Middle Ages | Philip Warner |
46 | Haigs Command | Denis Winter |
47 | Hitlers Deaths Head Division | Rupert Butler |
Forthcoming Titles |
48 | The Last Assault | Charles Whiting |
49 | The Battlefields of England | A. H. Burne |
50 | How the War Was Won | Tim Travers |
51 | The Red Baron | Manfred von Richthofen |
52 | Commando Men | Bryan Samain |
53 | Bomber Offensive | Arthur Harris |
54 | Remember Nelson | Tom Pocock |
Fire-Power
British Army Weapons and
Theories of War 19041945
By the same authors
SHELFORD BIDWELL
Gunners at War: A Tactical Study of the Royal Artillery in the Twentieth Century
Swords for Hire: European Mercenaries in Eighteenth Century India
Modern Warfare: A Study of Men, Weapons and Theories
The Royal Horse Artillery
The Womens Royal Army Corps
The Chindit War: The Campaign in Burma, 1944
Artillery of the World (Ed)
World War 3 (Ed)
DOMINICK GRAHAM
Cassino
British Government and American Defence, 174856
First published in 1982 by George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Limited
Published in 2004 in this format by
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Under the effects of long range fire and strong air attacks, baggage and columns rushed eastward in headlong confusion the airmen worked over us like madmen the air activity was enormous.
Extract from a German monograph on the
battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918.
OH 1918, Vol. IV.
We thought that we were bettering ourselves by leaving Russia for sunny Italy. Little did we know how much more devastating was British than Russian fire. Sixty per cent of our casualties have been from your artillery shells.
A German prisoner on 1 November 1943