The Employment of Machine Guns 1918 (Parts One [Tactical] & Two [Organisation and Direction of Fire])

von The General Staff

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Part One there are Chapters on employing machine guns in defensive and offensive roles; use of the guns in woods, villages and towns; organising the defence of captured positions; improvisation and how to employ the guns in open ground. There is also an A-Z of machine guns, from co-operation with artillery to wire and woods. Part II has sections on maps, contours, scales, traversing, overhead fire, night firing and barrage fire among others. This is a complete guide to the British Army's use of machine guns in the final stages of the Great War and is essential reading.

• Reihe: No Series Linked
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte Besondere Kriege und militärische Feldzüge Erster Weltkrieg
• ISBN: 9781847348500
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2009
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press