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British Shell Shortage of the First World War
Phillip Harding
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Description for British Shell Shortage of the First World War
Hardcover. The effects of the British shell shortage on political and military events in the First World War Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBWN; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
The severe shortage of munitions during the First World War increased the level of casualties in the battlefields; prevented the breakthrough of the German defences thus continuing a war of attrition; brought about the downfall of the great Liberal Government of the early twentieth century; and placed the British public on a total war footing for the first time in history. The British Shell Shortage of the First World War looks at shell manufacture and views the military and political battles of 1915, a time when decisions made by a government whose ideology was not compatible to war, had to ... Read more
The severe shortage of munitions during the First World War increased the level of casualties in the battlefields; prevented the breakthrough of the German defences thus continuing a war of attrition; brought about the downfall of the great Liberal Government of the early twentieth century; and placed the British public on a total war footing for the first time in history. The British Shell Shortage of the First World War looks at shell manufacture and views the military and political battles of 1915, a time when decisions made by a government whose ideology was not compatible to war, had to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781554531
SKU
V9781781554531
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Ref
99-50
About Phillip Harding
Phillip Harding was born in 1959 and is the youngest son of a rifleman who fought in the Second World War. Harding researched into his family's history and collected information on his father's war career and service years. Encouraged by Sir Christopher Wallace of the Green Jackets Museum, Harding compiled his first book - From Gazala to Tunis - 422 ... Read more
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