A Book of Sandhurst Wargames

Griffith, Paddy

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

Battle Tactics of the Civil War

Analyzes the events, weapons, and strategies of the Civil War and argues that the introduction of modern weaponry did not have significant effect on the outcome or the conduct of the war

History

Americas

Yale University Press

Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.

Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18

Military

Describes the various non-nuclear weapons systems of modern warfare, and discusses strengths, weaknesses, and tactics

The Ultimate Weaponry

PIMLOTT, John

st.martins press

METHUEN

Describes the various non-nuclear weapons systems of modern warfare, and discusses strengths, weaknesses, and tactics

The ultimate weaponry

Longmeadow Press

An excellent and scholarly survey of the principles of simulated warfare, with four boardgames, including a simple game of medieval warfare during the Hundred Years War, a grand Napoleonic campaign game, a cat and mouse wargame of WWII espionage and airpower during the last days of the battleship Tirpitz, and a thoughtful examination of the psychology of battle in the form of a WWII Pacific Theater role-playing game of personal man-to-man combat.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Coward, McCann and Geoghegan

Analyzes battlefield strategies and tactics used in Napoleon's time, in the First and Second World Wars, Vietnam, and up to the present day

Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future

Presidio Pr

Rally once again: Battle tactics of the American Civil War

Crowood Press in association with Antony Bird

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