books about: artillery     books:       The Artillery of Gettysburg3 reviews Bradley M. Gottfried Cumberland House Publishing, 2008 Solid shot at a vital component of a great battle Bradley Gottfried's "The Artillery of Gettysburg" is a solid account of the part that artillery, both Union and Confederate, played during the Battle of Gettysburg. The story of the battle is narrated in a straigtforward chronological fashion, with the role of each artillery unit described in turn, detailing how each battery acted and reacted to the avalanche of events during the three days of ...             American Civil War Artillery 1861-65 (2): Heavy Artillery (New Vanguard)1 review Philip Katcher Osprey Publishing, 2001 Inexpensive introduction to ACW Heavy Artillery This book attempts to fill a missing niche in ACW artillery reviews: the heavy artillery. It does provide some useful information that is difficult to find, and it is inexpensive. Unfortunately, it is incompletely researched. The primary reference work on the heavy artillery is "The Big Guns" by Olmstead, Stark, and Tucker and surprisingly author Philip Katcher seems to have been unaware of ...             Field Artillery and Firepower1 review Jonathan B. A. Bailey US Naval Institute Press, 2003 Worth rereading and careful studying When I bought this book I was looking for specifics on a number of items regarding recent NATO and Warsaw Pact artillery practices. Since the author was an extremely well placed observer / participant to all this I was looking forward to the book. My initial impression though was that it lacked the hard data and analysis that I was looking for and it promptly went into the 'read later' pile ...             German Artillery of World War One1 review Herbert Jager Crowood, 2001 German Artillery of World War One by Herbert Jager An excellent book! Herr Jager fills in an important area missing in the field of Artillery. His work on the known and many lesser known and rare pieces of Germany Artillery before and during WWI does justice on the subject that should please almost everone even Ian Hogg. He has included many rare photos of field guns and other equipment that I have never seen in books in the United States. ...             Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion: Moorman's and Hart's Batteries (Voices of the Civil War)1 review Univ Tennessee Press, 2008 Excellent Book on the Civil War! Robert Trout has done an excellent job on putting together 3 different views on J.E.B. Stuart's Horse Artillery Battalion. If you are looking for information/history on the battles, course events, and the personal views of those in this battery, then this is the right book for you. The first part covers Lt. Lewis Tune Nunnelee and his daily diary that has survived all these years by his ...             British Artillery 1914-19: Heavy Artillery (New Vanguard)2 reviews Dale Clarke Osprey Publishing, 2005 Nicely Detailed Heavy Artillery covers the pre-war modernization and organization of the British siege guns, balanced against the reality of war time deployment in a landscape decidedly ill-suited to moving and emplacing such massive equipment. Attention is given to the practical problems of logistics with limited mechanization and long range fire control from hidden batteries in the days before practical ...             A Dangerous Assignment: An Artillery Forward Observer in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series) William B. Hanford Stackpole Books, 2008 Cpl. Bill Hanford had one of the U.S. Army_s most dangerous jobs in World War II: artillery forward observer (FO). Tasked with calling in heavy fire on the enemy, FOs accompanied infantrymen into combat, crawled into no-man_s-land, and ascended observation posts like hills and ridges to find their targets. But beyond the usual perils of ground combat, FOs were specially targeted by the enemy because of their crucial role in directing artillery ...             British Artillery 1914-19: Field Army Artillery (New Vanguard)1 review Dale Clarke Osprey Publishing, 2004 A Nice Summary British graduate student Dale Clarke has produced a nice summary of British artillery in the First World War in Osprey's New Vanguard #94; one can only hope that Osprey will follow-up with other volumes on French and German artillery of that period. In accordance with the New Vanguard format, Clarke's 48-page summary focuses on the guns themselves, rather than doctrine, tactics or artillery ...             Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (The United States in ... Ussama Makdisi Cornell University Press, 2008 The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most Americans or Arabs realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert ...             Civil War Artillery At Gettysburg9 reviews Philip , M. Cole Colecraft Industries, 2006 Those Civil War Caissons Go Rolling Along There have been countless books and articles written covering all aspects of Civil War infantry including organization, equipment, strategies, tactics, command requirements, etc. In comparison, little has been written about Civil War artillery. Using the Battle of Gettysburg as the narrative vehicle, the author, Phillip Cole, has written an informative account of Civil War artillery. The author ...             American Civil War Artillery 1861-65: Field and Heavy Artillery (Special Editions (Military))1 review Philip Katcher Osprey Publishing, 2001 Insufficiently detailed and somewhat confused, but inexpensive A bargain for those who are already planning to buy Philip Katcher's "American Civil War Artillery" volume 1 or 2, this title contains both volumes within a single cover at a single volume price. This is not a really bad work, and it has some useful information not found in some other titles, but there are better works available in the subject. This is particularly true of the first half of ...             Artillery at the Golden Gate: The Harbor Defenses of San Francisco in World War II2 reviews Brian B. Chin Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1994 Artillery at the Golden Gate Tom Nelson, Novato, Ca 11/10/07-I very much disagree with the gentlemen from Long Beach. I have met Brian Chin. He is our expert on the SF Coast Artillery. I found all I needed to know in this book. As an amateur Military Historian,specializing in the Maginot Line, I can say his book equals Vivian Rowe, the first author to cover the Line. Too many publications get into technical matters ...             Napoleonic Artillery4 reviews Anthony L. Dawson, Paul L. Dawson, ... Crowood, 2008 The reference book on the subject There has been quite a lot of smoke around this subject recently, so it is worth noting that until recently, there was very little, especially in English, covering this important subject - the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars saw the change in warfare to a battlefield dominated by large batteries of artillery. Then, a few years ago, Osprey produced 5 New Vanguards on napoleonic Artillery ...             Civil War Cavalry & Artillery Sabers (Swords)4 reviews John H. Thillmann Andrew Mowbray Pub, 2001 Finally an up-to-date source on Civil War blades For years, the field of American military swords has only been superficially addressed. The foremost book on the topic, has been Harold L. Peterson's The American Sword, 1775-1945. Though a very good treatment of the subject, it has grown to be quite out-of-date in scholarship (the first edition was published in 1954). Since his book, there hasn't been any serious publication dedicated to ...             US WWII ARTILLERY (Us World War II Weaponry) Paul Gaujac Histoire and Collections, 2008 With the help of technical specifications, discover all the cannon used by the American forces campaigning between 1941 and 1945. Field artillery and anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns are presented from the technical and historical point of view. A chapter is devoted to radio vectors and another to artillery spotting. Undisputed specialist of 20th Century French Army history and former officer, Paul Gaujac served in the paratroopers, in the air ...             Roman Artillery (Shire Archaeology) Alan Wilkins Shire, 2003             Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars6 reviews Kevin Kiley Greenhill Books, 2006 Everthing you could want to know........ This is the most comprehensive account of artillery during the Napoleonic wars I think you could hope to read (if anyone has an alternate please do review and add reference). It is a lucid and at times exciting account of the use of artillery. I think it has covered every major action of the period including some I hadn't heard of. Not only does the book cover the engagements well, it also ...              search for books 1861-65, 1914-19, american, archaeology, artillery, assignment, battalion, batteries, british, cavalry, conversion, dangerous, defenses, editions, firepower, forward, francisco, gettysburg, history, memoirs, middle, military, missionaries, moorman, napoleonic, observer, special, stackpole, vanguard, weaponry books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: WOLF-Garten Ladies' Garden Glove #7760001 Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox