Topography and Strategy in the War (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Douglas Wilson Johnson

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ISBN 10 : 1330664841 ISBN 13 : 9781330664841

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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As a student of land forms who is more or less familiar with the broader topographic features of Europe the writer has had a professional as well as a personal interest in the great war. He was particularly anxious to discover how far modern military operations are still affected by the element of terrain; and whether guns which hurl high ex plosive shells with marvelous accuracy over lofty mountain ridges and across the widest river valleys, aeroplane service which permits better observations than can be secured from the most favorably situated topographic eminences, and modern engineering devices which refuse to be daunted by the deepest stream or steepest cliff, have eliminated the surface features of the land as an important factor in mili tary calculations. Aided by large scale maps showing with precision the topography of the principal battle fronts he has, from the first days of the war, followed with some care the changes on each front, and has found ample indication that the role played by land forms in plans of campaign and movements of armies is no less important today than in the past. To emphasize this interesting relationship be tween inanimate Nature and the science of war is one of the objects of this book. Another object, and perhaps the more important, is to place before the reader such a picture' of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our Allies' troops. If the surface features of Europe control in im portant measure the issues of the various campaigns, con tributing to success in one field and imposing failure inunderstanding of the war despatches printed daily in the press. Maps ordinarily accessible to the public are in accurate and vague, and there exists no single volume giving such maps, diagrams, photographs, and word descriptions of the theaters of war as will provide the reader with good mental pictures of those fields on which the battles of democ racy are being waged. To meet this need, so far as I am able, is the chief purpose of this volume. In order to give it a maximum of usefulness I have endeavored to combine scientific accuracy in the descriptions of topography with a treatment which avoids the use of technical terms.

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As a student of land forms who is more or less familiar with the broader topographic features of Europe the writer has had a professional as well as a personal interest in the great war. He was particularly anxious to discover how far modern military operations are still affected by the element of terrain; and whether guns which hurl high explosive shells with marvelous accuracy over lofty mountain ridges and across the widest river valleys, aeroplane service which permits better observations than can be secured from the most favorably situated topographic eminences, and modern engineering devices which refuse to be daunted by the deepest stream or steepest cliff, have eliminated the surface features of the land as an important factor in military calculations. A ided by large scale maps showing with precision the topography of the principal battle fronts he has, from the first days of the war, followed with some care the changes on each front, and has found ample indication that the role played by land forms in plans of campaign and movements of armies is no less important today than in the past. To emphasize this interesting relationship between inanimate Nature and the science of war is one of the objects of this book. A nother object, and perhaps the more important, is to place before the reader such a picture of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our Allies
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330664841
• ISBN 13: 9781330664841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 301
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