Over the Top: Great Battles Of The First World War (Copy 2).

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Arcturus Publishing for Book Mart.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a couple of photos of soldiers in the trenches. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No crease to spine or hinge. Lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Edges & margins slightly aged. No other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Several full-page b/w maps at frontis & within text.* Pages: 235 pp. text. v pp. further reading list, index of armies, battles and commanders at rear.* Product Description:- The First World War was the first chapter in the history of modern warfare. The early battles for the French and British during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers. By early 1915, a new type of war had emerged ? trench warfare. Although modern artillery and machine-guns had been employed in the Second Boer War only a decade or so previously, the perfection of their use led to the creation of a static front, the Western Front, stretching from the Belgian coast in the north to the Swiss border in the south. Mobile warfare fuelled the development of close-action weapons such as the Mills bomb and the light machine-gun, new methods of using artillery, and the production of entirely new weapons such as poison gas, the aircraft and the tank. Over the Top looks at the employment of these weapons in the trench warfare of the Western Front and Gallipoli during 1914?1918 in the major battles that influenced the outcome of the First World War.* This is a NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl, with some slight age & wear reducing it to VG.*