Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook312 pages4 hours
Machine-Guns and the Great War
By Paul Cornish
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War – indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. During a four-year war that generated unprecedented casualties, the machine-gun stood out as a key weapon. In the process it took on an almost legendary status that persists to the present day. It shaped the tactics of the trenches, while simultaneously evolving in response to the tactical imperatives thrown up by this new form of warfare. Paul Cornish, in this authoritative and carefully considered study, reconsiders the history automatic firepower, and he describes in vivid detail its development during the First World War and the far-reaching consequences thereof. He dispels many myths and misconceptions that have grown up around automatic firearms, but also explores their potency as symbols and icons. His clear-sighted reassessment of the phenomenon of the machine-gun will be fascinating reading for students of military history and of the Great War in particular.
Unavailable
Read more from Paul Cornish
Machine-Guns and the Great War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First World War Retold Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Machine-Guns and the Great War
Related ebooks
Summary of Paul Cornish's Machine-Guns and the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPanzer I & II: Blueprint for Blitzkrieg, 1933–1941 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritish Tanks: The Second World War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tank Wrecks of the Western Front, 1940–1945 Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Tank Destroyer, Achilles and M10: British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944–1945 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second World War: Dunkirk and the Fall of France Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underground Warfare, 1914–1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Battle That Won the War: Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg Line, 1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of Tanks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSniping in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreaking the Fortress Line, 1914 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMortars in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKings of Battle US Self-Propelled Howitzers, 1981-2022 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCenturion: Armoured Hero of Post-War Tank Battles Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Panzer I and II: The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSteel Thunder on the Eastern Front: German and Russian Artillery in WWII Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGerman Self-propelled Artillery at War 1940–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGerman Tank Destroyers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLuger: The Story of the World's Most Famous Handgun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's Panzers: The Complete History 1933–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArmoured Warfare in the First World War 1916-18 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hitler's Anti-Tank Weapons 1939–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArras Counter-Attack, 1940 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPanzer III: Germany's Medium Tank Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great War on the Western Front: A Short History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe British on the Somme 1916 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Army at Cambrai Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEM33 American Web Equipment 1910-1967: Europa Militaria Series Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Illustrated Catalog of Rifles and Shotguns: 500 Historical to Modern Long-Barreled Firearms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArtillery of the Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Wars & Military For You
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Machine-Guns and the Great War
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews