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Stormtroop Tactics : Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 by Bruce I. Gudmundsson (1989, Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 227. Weight: 1.11 lbs. Publication Date: 1989-11-06. Publisher: PRAEGER FREDERICK A.

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Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account of the evolution of stormtroop tactics available in English. It covers areas previously left unexplored: the German Infantry's tactical heritage, the squad's evolution as a tactical unit, the use of new weapons for close combat, the role of the elite assault units in the development of new tactics, and detailed descriptions of offensive battles that provided the inspiration and testing ground for this new way of fighting. Both a historical investigation and a standard of excellence in infantry tactics, Stormtroop Tactics is required reading for professional military officers and historians as well as enthusiasts. Contrary to previous studies, Stormtroop Tactics proposes that the German Infantry adaption to modern warfare was not a straightforward process resulting from the top down intervention of reformers but instead a bottom up phenomenon. It was an accumulation of improvisations and ways of dealing with pressing situations that were later sewn together to form what we now call Blitzkrieg. Focusing on action at the company, platoon, and squad level, Stormtroop Tactics provides a detailed description of the evolution of German defensive tactics during World War I--tactics that were the direct forbears of those used in World War II.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0275933288
ISBN-13
9780275933289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81542

Product Key Features

Author
Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War I, General

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz

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Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
D531
Reviews
"Very useful for modern soldiers who must consider how their own doctrine . . . must be adapted to meet the changes technology and circumstance will impose on their own future battlefield." ARMY, "For too long, a curious mystery has enveloped the origin of German stormtroop tactics in World War I. Like Topsy they just growed. But as Bruce Gudmundsson demonstrates in this admirable contribution to the literature of military history, the principles of open-order tactics, which were at the heart of infiltration, go back to the Boer War; even by the end of 1914. German commanders were experimenting with the rudiments of new attack forms. That conventional trench warfare was bound to end, and did so on March 21, 1918, should no longer puzzle us. What Colonel G.C. Wynne once did for the evolution of German defensive tactics in the Great War, Captain Gudmundsson has now done, and remarkably, for their offensive equivalent." The Quarterly Journal of Military History, "Bruce Gudmundsson has written a useful book on the development of tactics in the German army in World War I, with the emphasis on the evolution of stormtroop tactics. . . . Gudmundsson's book is a good one: well-researched, to the point, and logical in its presentation. It is essential reading for those interested both in tactical innovation and in the German army in World War I." The Journal of Military History
Publication Name
Stormtroop Tactics : Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
Table of Content
Introduction Prologue: The Massacre of Innocents Open Order Tactics Fortress Warfare Special Assault Units Verdun Expansion Organization and Technology The Eastern Front Mountain Warfare Cambrai The Peace Offensive Conclusion Appendix A: The Wilhelm Raid Appendix B: The Jacobsbrunnen Raid Appendix C: André Laffargue Bibliography Indexes
Copyright Date
1989
Format
Hardcover
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
89-003882
Dewey Decimal
940.4/13/43
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
227 Pages

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