King of Battle: Artillery in World War I

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30524-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 108, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

In King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, a distinguished array of authors examines the centrepiece of battle in the Great War: artillery. Going beyond the usual tables of calibres and ranges, the contributors consider the organization and technology of artillery, as well as present aspects of training, doctrine, and other national idiosyncrasies. Artillery dominated the battlefields of World War I, and forever changed the military doctrine of war. No nation that had participated in significant ground combat would blithely assume that morale could ever replace firepower. The essays included in this volume explain how twelve countries, including all the major combatants, handled artillery and how it affected the Great War.
Contributors include Filippo Cappellano, Boyd Dastrup, Edward J. Erickson, Bruce Gudmundsson, James Lyon, Sanders Marble, Janice E. McKenney, Dmitre Minchev, Andrey Pavlov, Kaushik Roy, Cornel and Ioan Scafes, John Schindler, and David Zabecki.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marble, Sanders

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Verwaltung, Streitkräfte (Militärwesen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Preface vii
List of Maps, Figures and Tables viii
List of Contributors xii
1 Introduction 1
Bruce Gudmundsson
2 The British Artillery in World War I 35
Sanders Marble
3 The French Artillery in the First World War 62
Bruce Gudmundsson
4 German Artillery in the First World War 101
David T. Zabecki
5 Austria-Hungary in the First World War 126
John R. Schindler
6 Bulgarian Artillery in the First World War 157
Dimitre Minchev
7 Ottoman Army Artillery in the First World War 173
Edward J. Erickson
8 Italian Artillery during the First World War: Its Structural, Organic,
Tactical and Material Evolution 196
Filippo Cappellano
9 Serbia’s Artillery during the First World War 221
James Lyon
10 Russian Artillery 255
Andrey Pavlov
11 United States Field Artillery in World War I 281
Janice McKenney
12 Artillery of the Army in India in World War I 299
Kaushik Roy
13 Romanian Artillery in the First World War 324
Cornel and Ioan Scafes
14 Conclusion: Artillery as a Result of World War I 360
Boyd Dastrup
Index 377

Über Autor(innen)

Sanders Marble, Ph.D. (1998), King's College, University of London, has published three books and seven articles on artillery and its role in the Great War.